Study Guide to The American by Henry James

Study Guide to The American by Henry James
Author: Intelligent Education
Publisher: Influence Publishers
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2020-09-12
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1645421937

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry James’s The American, widely regarded as the first international novel and one of the earliest successes written by the outstanding American novelist and stylist. As a novel that celebrates and typifies the American spirit, James’s early work combines elements of comedy and romance to contrast nineteenth-century American and European manners. Moreover, The American provides early insight to the theme of the “international subject,” a theme that would dominate James’s writing throughout his decades-long career. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of James’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research

New York Revisited

New York Revisited
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

In New York Revisited, first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to the U.S. after living abroad for more than 20 years, the essay is as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. The text appears as it was originally published and is enhanced with period illustrations and photographs. Beautifully bound and with a spectacular view of the Flatiron building on the cover, this book is a literary treasure.

A Historical Guide to Henry James

A Historical Guide to Henry James
Author: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 019512135X

An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.

A Study Guide for Henry James's "The American"

A Study Guide for Henry James's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2016-07-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410339823

A Study Guide for Henry James's "The American," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

The American

The American
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1981-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140390827

Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The American

The American
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-02-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781543072266

The American A social comedy about Christopher Newman, an American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Along the way, he finds a widow from an aristocratic French family.

WASHINGTON SQUARE

WASHINGTON SQUARE
Author: Henry James
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8027229804

Washington Square is a tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble. The book is often compared with Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships. Dr. Austin Sloper, a wealthy and highly successful physician, lives in Washington Square, New York with his daughter Catherine. Catherine is a sweet-natured young woman who is a great disappointment to her father, being physically plain and, he believes, dull in terms of personality and intellect. His sister, Lavinia Penniman, a meddlesome woman with a weakness for romance and melodrama, is the only other member of the doctor's household. Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.

The American Scene

The American Scene
Author: Henry James
Publisher: New York : Harper
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1907
Genre: Atlantic States
ISBN:

The Bostonians

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

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'
Author: Alfred Habegger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521609437

This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is equally on his life and on his fictions. This is the first book to investigate his father's bizarre lifelong struggle with free love and feminism, a struggle that played a major role in shaping James. The book also shows how seriously he distorted the truth about the cousin, Minnie Temple, whose self-assertive image inspired him; and how indebted he was to certain American women writers whom he attacked in reviews but whose plots and heroines he appropriated in his own fiction.