| Description |
ix, 207 pages : portrait ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Critical essays on American literature |
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Critical essays on American literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / James W. Gargano -- Part I. Reviews and contemporary commentary -- Review of Watch and ward / Anon. -- Watch and ward / Anon. -- Roderick Hudson : a surprising exhibition of power / Anon. -- Roderick Hudson : James, the Schopenhauer of modern fiction? / Anon. -- Roderick Hudson : twenty-eight years later / Anon. -- The American : an intellectual novel / Edward L. Burlingame -- The American : strong, relentless realism / Anon. -- The American : twenty-five years later / Anon. -- The Europeans / Anon. -- Confidence : James's avoidance of the passionate situation / Anon. -- Washington Square : a rigidity of purpose / Anon. -- Washington Square : a most refractory provinciality / Anon. -- Washington Square : a turn-of-the-century view / Anon. -- The portrait of a lady : a masterly painting of moral and intellectual atmosphere / John Ashcroft Noble -- The portrait of a lady as pictorial art / Anon. -- The portrait of a lady : James's masterpiece / Edgar Fawcett -- Henry James, Jr., and the modern novel / J.H. Morse -- Henry James, Jr. / William Dean Howells -- The storm over Howells's praise of James / George W. Curtis -- The Bostonians / Anon. -- The Bostonians : a 'comprehensive condemnation" / Anon. -- The Princess Casamassima / Richard F. Littledale -- The Princess Casamassima : James as mere observer / Anon. -- The Princess Casamassima : a great novel / Anon. -- The tragic muse : or The idiot asylum? / George Saintsbury -- The tragic muse and the new novel / William Dean Howells -- The tragic muse : the infinite variety of mind / Anon. -- Part II. Twentieth-century essays -- Roderick Hudson / Richard Poirier -- Rereading The American : a century since / James W. Tuttleton -- James's The Europeans and the structure of comedy / J.A. Ward -- Washington Square : a study in the growth of an inner self / James W. Gargano -- The high brutality of good intentions / William H. Gass -- The portrait of a lady / Leon Edel -- Introduction to The Bostonians / Irving Howe -- The Princess Casamassima / Oscar Cargill -- Miriam as the English Rachel : Gérôme's portrait of the Tragic muse / Adeline R. Tintner. |
| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Gargano, James W.
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| ISBN |
0816188769 alkaline paper |
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0816188823 set alkaline paper |
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