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The American (1877) was written the very year Henry James committed himself to making his way as an author outside America. It thus formed part of the brief that James had to draw up both for and against his countrymen. This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects of the novel: the French literary influences on James as he gravitated between the genres of the romantic and the realistic novel; the many-layered French political scene that he incorporated into the novel; the complex gender roles of his characters; and the pervasive effect of capitalism upon them.
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New Essays on The American
The American (1877) was written the very year Henry James committed himself to making his way as an author outside America. It thus formed part of the brief that James had to draw up both for and against his countrymen. This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects of the novel: the French literary influences on James as he gravitated between the genres of the romantic and the realistic novel; the many-layered French political scene that he incorporated into the novel; the complex gender roles of his characters; and the pervasive effect of capitalism upon them.
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Vagaries of Place: Buoyed by Memory, Betrayed by History
[...] he discovered that he had been fooling himself all along. If you are like James, you are \"affected by the admirable art of the landscape, by seeing so much that is lovely and impressive achieved with such a frugality of means-with so little parade of the vast, the various, or the rare, with so narrow a range of colour and form\" (340-41).\\n . . . the huge shining indifference of Nature strikes a child to the heart and makes me wonder of what abysmal mystery, or villainy indeed, such a cruel smile is the expression.
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'Too Real': Teaching, Reading, Living Henry James
Taking Henry James into the classroom means the instructor faces difficulties that extend beyond matters of difficult style. This essay cites the obstacles this author has had in trying to overcome students' resistance to the psychological demands exacted when dealing with the layers of reality (both literal social data and intrusions of the transcendent) imposed by the reading of Jamesian narratives. It notes the contemporary theories of \"the real\" James puts on display in The Ambassadors. It also tracks instances when his characters' encounters with \"the too real\" releases them and James's readers alike from being bound by the limitations of literal literary social realism.
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