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Henry James

  • Textbook
  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Alan W. Bellringer
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Part of the book series: Modern Novelists (MONO)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Life of Henry James

    • Alan W. Bellringer
    Pages 1-25

  3. The Victorian James — ‘Mme. de Mauves’, The American, The Europeans

    • Alan W. Bellringer
    Pages 26-43

  4. American Girls — ‘Daisy Miller’, ‘The Pension Beaurepas’, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady

    • Alan W. Bellringer
    Pages 44-68

  5. Art and Conflict — ‘The Aspern Papers’, The Tragic Muse, ‘The Death of the Lion’

    • Alan W. Bellringer
    Pages 69-85

  6. English Morality — The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, ‘The Turn of the Screw’

    • Alan W. Bellringer
    Pages 86-104

  7. James the Modem Novelist — ‘The Beast in the Jungle’, The Golden Bowl

    • Alan W. Bellringer
    Pages 105-122

  8. Henry James’s Critical Fortunes

    • Alan W. Bellringer
    Pages 123-134

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 135-155
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Henry James believed that the novel should be ahead of its time and should influence experience as much as reflect or express it. In works like The Europeans, Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady, James brought American and European traditions in fiction together in new ways. His later works show further experiments with the language of consciousness, peripheral and opposing points of view, elusive reality and communication by signs. Alan Bellringer traces James's commitment to change and subtlety in his most popular texts. This study will be of interest to those coming to James for the first time as well as to more seasoned readers of his works.

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