Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

by Michael Gorra

Book Overview

Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel--the scandalous story of the expatriate American heiress Isabel Archer--came to be written in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404087
• ISBN13: 9780871404084
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"