A Henry James Chronology

A Henry James Chronology

Author: E. Harden

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0230502792

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This new volume in the Author Chronology series offers an intense articulation of Henry James's biographical experiences, which are presented amid the detailed unfolding of his imaginative writing, and set in the larger context of historical developments that impinged upon his life. Evoking the wide range of his experiences with other human beings, his manifold studies of fellow artists in various fields, and his critical articulation of the art of writing fiction, this study reveals his major influence upon subsequent writers and students of fiction.


William and Henry James

William and Henry James

Author: William James

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9780813916941

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This collection of 216 letters offers an accessible, single-volume distillation of the exchange between celebrated brothers William and Henry James. Spanning more than fifty years, their correspondence presents a lively account of the persons, places, and events that affected the Euro-American world from 1861 until the death of William James in August 1910. An engaging introduction by John J. McDermott suggests the significance of the Selected Letters for the study of the entire family.


Henry James in Context

Henry James in Context

Author: David McWhirter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-16

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0521514614

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


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

Published: 2012-08-27

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0871403285

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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 and the Art of Auto/biography

Henry James and the Art of Auto/biography

Author: Mirosława Buchholtz

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631629222

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This study explores non-fiction of Henry James (1843-1916), including literary criticism, biographies, and autobiographies, while also interrogating the traditional formula of literary auto/biography. It attempts to piece together an image of James as a subject and object of biographical and autobiographical endeavors, including portraiture.


What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 1908

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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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.


WASHINGTON SQUARE

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Author: Henry James

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 8027229804

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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.


Novels, 1881-1886

Novels, 1881-1886

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Library of America

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 1249

ISBN-13: 9780940450301

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Tells the stories of a fortune hunter, an American heiress living in Europe, and a naive young woman torn between love and idealism.


A Henry James Encyclopedia

A Henry James Encyclopedia

Author: Robert L. Gale

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1989-03-27

Total Pages: 826

ISBN-13:

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Called a Shakespeare of the novel and America's only fully realized literary artist by Leon Edel, his prize-winning biographer, Henry James was also one of the most prolific American writers. His massive literary output included approximately 300 critical essays, 134 novels and stories, 15 plays, and some 15,000 letters. A Henry James Encyclopedia offers both the interested reader and committed scholar a wealth of information about James and his work in one volume. More than 3,000 entries summarize each of James's works, describe every fictional and dramatic character in them, identify writers and artists James reviewed, discuss each important man and woman he associated with or wrote to, and define members of his extended family. The encyclopedia itself is arranged alphabetically in one continuous set of entries, making it extremely easy to find specific information. The only book of its kind ever produced for an American writer, this volume will be an indispensable source for Jamesian scholars as well as for students just beginning their study of his work.