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Apr 11, 2024 · Henry James (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 28, 1916, London, England) was an American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen from 1915, a great figure in the transatlantic culture. His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in clash with the corruption and wisdom of the Old ...
- Leon Edel
Henry James. Henry James OM ( 15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and ...
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- Harvard Law School
- 1863–1916
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Dec 24, 2018 · Henry James’s (1843 - 1916) distinctive contributions to the art of the novel were developed over a long career of some fifty years. Leon Edel, possibly the most renowned and respected James scholar, has indicated that James’s mature writing can be divided into three periods (with three subdivisions in the middle phase). Through the ...
Wellek, Rene. "Henry James's Literary Theory and Criticism." An influential literary critic evaluates Henry James as a critic and theorist, who notes "There is an extreme divergence of opinions, even among presumably sympathetic critics, about the stature of Henry James as a critic." American Literature 30, 3 (1958) [first page of article only].
Dec 20, 2023 · James’s 1908 prefaces to his various works are themselves a worthy treatise on literary theory, and this particular introduction persuades the reader to ignore any past and future critics who ...
- Lauren Christensen
Jun 25, 2021 · ABSTRACT. Since the 1990s, when the late novels of Henry James became a touchstone for the ethical turn in literary criticism, ethical critics of different persuasions, such as Martha Nussbaum and J. Hillis Miller, homed in on certain complex terms and ambiguous avowals in James’s prose in their efforts to hold him up as an ‘exemplary’ writer, committed to ‘ethical’ values such as ...
