
Hawthorne
Henry James(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 27. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-1-108-03462-3 (ISBN)
Description
This critical essay and biography by Henry James (1843-1916) of his fellow American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64), today best remembered for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, was published in the first 'English Men of Letters' series in 1879, and is notable for being the only volume in that series devoted to an American. It is now recognised as being one of the first critical studies of an American writer, and it remains an important work for students and admirers both of James and of Hawthorne. In his critical assessment, James, whose own writing was strongly influenced by Hawthorne, seeks to identify him not only as a great novelist, but particularly as an American novelist, rooted in the landscape, and speaking in the language, of the New World.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
257 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-03462-3 (9781108034623)
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Person
Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-born author best known for his novels The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove, as well as many shorter works of fiction and plays. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.
Content
1. Early years; 2. Early manhood; 3. Early writings; 4. Brook Farm and Concord; 5. The three American novels; 6. England and Italy; 7. Last years.