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Book Title
Henry James: Literary Criticism Vol. 1 (LOA #22)
Publication Name
Henry James: Literary Criticism Vol. 1 (LOA #22)
Title
Henry James: Literary Criticism Vol. 1 (LOA #22)
Subtitle
Essays on Literature, American & English Writers
Author
Henry James
Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
0940450224
EAN
9780940450226
ISBN
9780940450226
Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
Genre
Literary Criticism
Topic
General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Release Date
01/12/1984
Release Year
1984
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
208mm
Item Length
132mm
Item Width
43mm
Item Weight
936g
Series
Library of America Collected Nonfiction of Henry James

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Henry James, renowned as one of the world's great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, and masterly critics of modern times. This Library of America volume and its companion are a fitting testimony to his unprecedented achievement. They offer the only comprehensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, more than one-third of which have never appeared in book form. This first volume focuses especially on his responses to American and English writers; the second volume contains his essays on European literature and the Prefaces to the New York Edition of his fiction. From 1864 until virtually the end of his life, James displayed an astonishing range and catholicity of critical interests, touching on nearly every facet of literature in America, England, and Europe. Here are his most important theoretical essays, including his witty and daring declarations of the novelist's freedom in "The Art of Fiction," "The Future of the Novel," and "The Science of Criticism"-a gently ironic title from a writer who regarded criticism as a form of art. Appreciations of Ralph Waldo Emerson ("I knew he was great, greater than any of our friends"), pungent comments (which he later regretted) on Walt Whitman's "Drum-Taps," and assessments of Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, his friend and admirer William Dean Howells, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis Parkman, and scores of other American writers are joined, in revealing proximity, to commentaries on nearly every important English writer of fiction (and some poets, such as the Brownings) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These reviews of English writers include James's stunning essay on Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend , his provocative discussions of George Eliot, and his tough but appreciative estimates of Anthony Trollope, Matthew Arnold, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Morris, Rupert Brooke, Ouida, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Also included here is his great essay on Shakespeare's The Tempest . All of these pieces are gathered under the author considered, so that James's supple changes in attitude can be followed across the years. Of particular interest, both critically and biographically, are James's commentaries on Nathaniel Hawthorne, including his still-controversial book-length study of 1879. His estimates of his predecessor's work remain highly debatable, but are perhaps more interesting as evidence of his own feelings about being an American writer of a later and, as he assumed, more complex time. Finally, this volume includes two invaluable collections- his "American Letters" and "London Notes," wherein, with unsurpassed tact and grandeur of mind, he introduces readers of his native and of his adopted country to each other. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0940450224
ISBN-13
9780940450226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
988446

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Author
Henry James
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
33.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Book Title
Henry James : Literary Criticism Vol. 1 (Loa #22)
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Pn761.J242 1984
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Copyright Date
1984
Format
Hardcover
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
91-058224
Series
Library of America Collected Nonfiction of Henry James Ser.
Publication Year
1984
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
1504 Pages

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