Henry James

Henry James
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521155403

Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James' work ever assembled. This collection also reprints many rarely seen notices written by the most important women reviewers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter ends with a checklist of additional reviews not presented here. The introduction surveys the major themes of the reviews and also shows how they personally influenced James and his work.

A London Life, and Other Tales

A London Life, and Other Tales
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789357090469

A London Life, and Other Tales, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.

Henry James in Contemporary Fiction

Henry James in Contemporary Fiction
Author: Bethany Layne
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2020-03-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030316505

This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James’s life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions about James by David Lodge and Colm Tóibín, and those written from the perspective of the key female figures in his life. Part Two explores appropriations of The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Ambassadors. The book articulates the developments in biographical and adaptive writing that enabled millennial writers to engage so explicitly with James, locates the sources of his appeal, and explores the different forms of engagement taken. Layne analyses how these manifestations of James’s legacy might function differently for knowing versus unknowing readers, and how they might perform the role of literary criticism. Overarching themes include ideas of queering, the concern with seeking redress, and the frustrated quest for origin, authenticity, or ‘the real thing’.

The Bostonians

The Bostonians
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1921
Genre: Boston (Mass.)
ISBN:

The New York Stories of Henry James

The New York Stories of Henry James
Author: Henry James
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2011-08-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590174321

Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James’s career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early “An International Episode” to the surreal and haunted corridors of “The Jolly Corner,” and including “Washington Square,” the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James’s finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James’s varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination. And throughout the book, as Tóibín’s fascinating introduction demonstrates, we see James struggling to make sense of a city in whose rapidly changing outlines he discerned both much that he remembered and held dear as well as everything about America and its future that he dreaded most. Stories included: The Story of a Masterpiece A Most Extraordinary Case Crawford’s Consistency An International Episode The Impressions of a Cousin The Jolly Corner Washington Square Crapy Cornelia A Round of Visits

The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove
Author: Henry James
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 775
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1775417417

Young Londoners Kate and Merton are engaged, but have no money to marry on. When the wealthy but terminally ill American heiress Milly arrives in London, Kate schemes for a way to inherit her fortune. But when Kate achieves all she had hoped for, she finds that the money and the gentle, beautiful Milly have changed everything.

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
Author: Michael Gorra
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0871403285

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) One of the Best Books of 2012: The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Phoenix A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel—the scandalous story of the expatriate American heiress Isabel Archer—came to be written in the first place. Traveling to Florence, Rome, Paris, and England, Gorra sheds new light on James’s family, the European literary circles—George Eliot, Flaubert, Turgenev—in which James made his name, and the psychological forces that enabled him to create this most memorable of female protagonists. Appealing to readers of Menand’s The Metaphysical Club and McCullough’s The Greater Journey, Portrait of a Novel provides a brilliant account of the greatest American novel of expatriate life ever written. It becomes a piercing detective story on its own.

Henry James in Context

Henry James in Context
Author: David McWhirter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2010-09-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521514614

The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.

Henry James and Modern Moral Life

Henry James and Modern Moral Life
Author: Robert B. Pippin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001-07-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780521655477

This book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding.

What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1908
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

After her parents� bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie � solitary, observant and wise beyond her years � is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. What Maisie Knew is a subtle yet devastating portrayal of an innocent adrift in a corrupt society. Part of a relaunch of three James titles.