Titlebook: Henry James and the Real Thing; A Modern Reader‘s Gu Virginia Llewellyn Smith Book 1994 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publish

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Washington Square,’. The fiction for which this is the setting is one of James’s liveliest, yet it is one that repeatedly reverts to the idea of a life left behind. In subject-matter, style and scope it is reminiscent of Jane Austen; but its young woman in quest of a husband remains unmarried, left on the shelf, a re

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The Portrait of a Lady,, as the philosophical reach of such a question manages to imply; and Catherine, were she to overhear the conversation of these two sophisticates, might be impressed by several aspects of it. Madame Merle denies that a person’s essential being can be separated from the ‘envelope of circumstances’, t

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The Spoils of Poynton,ath which keeps Mrs Gereth awake ‘for hours’. There is absolutely no glimpse in this account of difficulties between parents and children of the disintegration of society as a whole. We are witness again to self-sacrifice made ostensibly in the name of civilised values; but if the ‘mess of blood’ in

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What Maisie Knew,air, and proper schooling always has for her the attraction of the unattainable. As the prospect of it becomes increasingly remote, Maisie feels ‘as if she were flattening her nose against the hard window-pane of the sweet-shop of knowledge’.

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Book 1994proach, yet is written for the intelligent reader whose interest in James is not necessarily academic. It examines six key novels and a number of short stories, interrelating them to provide not only an integrated picture of the fiction, but some conception of what animates it, and readings that challenge long-established critical assumptions.