Historical Guide to Henry James

by Eric Haralson

Book Overview

The New York City-born Henry James (1843-1916)-eminent novelist, amateur psychologist, inveterate bachelor-epitomizes, to many, the turn-of-the-century literary observer of social mores. His shrewd portraits of upper-class Anglo American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries distilled the differences between the Old World and the New, the rise of American entrepreneurship, and an aesthetically charged European sensibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195121341
• ISBN13: 9780195121346
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"