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- James tried his hand at drama, primarily from 1890 to 1895, but he failed spectacularly. Critics like Leon Edel have pointed towards the failure of works like The Tragic Muse (1890) as central to James’s late style. As James continued writing, his works became more and more opaque.
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Apr 11, 2024 · Henry James 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, as illustrated in such works as Daisy Miller
- Leon Edel
Dec 24, 2018 · Several critics, perhaps the most famous being F. R. Leavis, in The Great Tradition (1948), believe this “recognition” to be a grave error; they claim that James refined his presentation beyond clear comprehension (thus the common accusation of excessive ambiguity) and eventually beyond interest.
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.
- Writer
- Harvard Law School
- 1863–1916
A selective list of online literary criticism for the American-born, London-based novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, and autobiographer Henry James, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources.
Jun 25, 2021 · 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 ...
Dec 20, 2023 · Of his more than 20 novels, dozens of story collections and novellas and volumes of criticism, letters, essays and poems, these are the most essential books to read to understand the great legacy...
