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The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James's best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on the letters Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Mary Shelley 's stepsister, Claire ...
- Henry James
- 1888
May 8, 2022 · “The Shades of Tone: The Narrator’s Tone of Voice in Henry James’s ‘The Aspern Papers.’ ” In Reinventions of the Novel: Histories and Aesthetics of a Protean Genre, edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Marianne Ping Huang, and Mads Rosendahl Thomson, 191–202. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. James, Henry. The Aspern Papers and Other Stories.
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Summary. A minor masterpiece, The Aspern Papers is perhaps not so familiar to nonaficionados of James as “The Beast in the Jungle” or The Turn of the Screw. Combining intrigue, seduction, and ...
The setting is changed to romantic Venice rather than Florence. The plot is set in motion by the narrator's effort to find a way to approach the Claire Clairmont figure, called Juliana Bordereau here, so that he can get possession of any letters, papers, or pictures of Aspern she has. Juliana has fiercely refused a previous request for an ...
The Aspern Papers Summary. An unnamed narrator—a literary biographer and scholar who is devoted to investigating the life and work of deceased American Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern —travels to Venice in order to try and obtain letters exchanged between Aspern and his ex-lover, the recluse Juliana Bordereau.
The reader’s interest in this tale is maintained in two ways: first, through the external drama of the narrator’s quest for the papers; second, through the internal drama of his moral decline.
The Aspern Papers by Henry James is a novella first published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888. The unnamed protagonist and narrator is an editor and obsessive fan of fictional poet Jeffrey Aspern, who is no longer living. Having heard that a former romantic partner of Aspern’s, Juliana Bordereau, and her niece, Tita Bordereau (renamed Tina in ...
