Henry James: A Literary Life

✍ Scribed by Kenneth Graham (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: Literary Lives
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive account of the writing life of Henry James aims at providing a critical overview of all his important writings, firmly set in two contexts: that of James's practical career as a novelist in America, England, and Europe; and that of the literary and intellectual climate of his time. By tracing the complex development of his career under such headings as 'American and Romantic', 'Victorian and Realist', 'Crisis and Experiment' and 'Master and Modernist', it gives a dynamic portrait, both factual and interpretative, of one of the greatest and most prolific novelists in the language, whose many-sided career began in the time of Thackeray and Dickens, and ended by ushering in the writings of Joyce and Woolf.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Beginnings....Pages 1-27
American and Romantic....Pages 28-51
Victorian and Realist....Pages 52-98
Crisis and Experiment....Pages 99-139
Master and Modernist....Pages 140-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-207

✦ Subjects

Nineteenth-Century Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Fiction