
Henry James
The Major Novels
Judith Woolf(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 4. April 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-521-31655-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-31655-2 (9780521316552)
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Content
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.