Henry James
The Major Novels
Part of British and Irish Authors
- Author: Judith Woolf
- Date Published: June 1991
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521316552
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Judith Woolf's elegantly written book introduces school and university students, as well as the interested general reader, to the major novels of Henry James (1843–1916), the American writer who became a great European novelist and died a naturalised Englishman. The principal novels in which James explored his central theme, the betrayal of innocence, are discussed in a lucid way which offers fresh intrepretations and communicates to the non-specialist reader the excitement rather than the difficulty of reading James. Difficulty is nonetheless often a feature of his work, and Judith Woolf does not shun important questions. She places him in the context of the history of the English novel (Fielding, Richardson, Dickens, and George Eliot), focusing on traditions of tragic and comic vision and on the subtleties of expression and perspective enabled by the narrative form. The book includes a short account of James's life, a list of his works and their dates, and a selected guide to further criticism.
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- Date Published: June 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521316552
- length: 176 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.23kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
A brief life of Henry James
1. Introductory
2. The Europeans, Washington Square, Daisy Miller
3. The Portrait of a Lady
4. The Bostonians
5. What Maisie Knew
6. The Awkward Age, The Ambassadors
7. The Wings of the Dove
8. The Golden Bowl
9. Afterword
Selected bibliography.
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