Washington SquareWordsworth Editions, 2001 - 154 pages Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression. |
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Henry James. Washington Square HENRY JAMES COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED WASHINGTON SQUARE This One XUEN - SL7 - Y9RJ WASHINGTON. WORDSWORTH CLASSICS Front Cover.
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Henry James. WASHINGTON SQUARE Henry James Introduction and Notes by IAN F. A. BELL WORDSWORTH CLASSICS First published in 1995 by Wordsworth Editions Limited 8b East.
Henry James. First published in 1995 by Wordsworth Editions Limited 8b East Street , Ware , Hertfordshire SG12 9HJ New Introduction and Notes added in 2001 ISBN 1 84022 427 4 © Wordsworth Editions Limited 1995 Introduction and Notes ...
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Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 6 |
Section 3 | 20 |
Section 4 | 42 |
Section 5 | 54 |
Section 6 | 67 |
Section 7 | 75 |
Section 8 | 80 |
Section 11 | 99 |
Section 12 | 108 |
Section 13 | 111 |
Section 14 | 119 |
Section 15 | 124 |
Section 16 | 135 |
Section 17 | 146 |
Section 18 | 153 |