Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Henry James
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Standard Name: James, Henry
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(who began publishing in 1871 and continued into the twentieth century) left his native USA to settle in England early in his writing career. Known for his extreme subtlety, verging at times on obscurity,
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| Textual Features | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The script uses narrative by Gilot
in voice-over to supplement its dramatic settings and tense encounters between people. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams. 247 |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The... |
| Textual Features | Viola Meynell | |
| Textual Features | Rebecca Harding Davis | Frances has a strong sense of self, yet she wastes her life and talent pandering to the tastes of the upper classes and sacrificing herself for the sake of her son. Through a character named... |
| Textual Features | E. Nesbit | EN
shows her versatility. The stories in Homespun are largely written in Kentish dialect, while those in The Literary Sense, 1903, aspire to aesthetics and James
ian self-consciousness. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 175 |
| Textual Features | Vernon Lee | Lady Tal features Jervase Marion, a character (or caricature) whose life is suffocated by his devotion to his art. He is balding, overweight, a dainty but frugal bachelor who takes the position of dispassioned spectator... |
| Textual Features | Edith Wharton | It represents (in a highly James
ian manner) the clash of national cultures through the experience of the young American widow of a French aristocrat. Her dead husband's relations use the custody of her son... |
| Textual Features | Ada Leverson | In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers... |
| Textual Features | Anita Brookner | The novels have been said to owe more to the French tradition than to the English—though French critics have read her as belonging to an English women's tradition, while English reviewers have cited most frequently... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Kennedy | Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues... |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | This is the first of Woolf's a London novels, and is set unambiguously in the recent past, in the period of the suffrage struggle before the first world war. It is a story of courtship... |
| Textual Features | Sara Jeannette Duncan | Critic Rosemary Sullivan
sees in these stories the influence of Henry James
. Sullivan, Rosemary, and Sara Jeannette Duncan. “Introduction”. The Pool in the Desert, edited by Gillian Siddall and Gillian Siddall, Broadview, pp. 11-22. 14 |
| Textual Features | Gertrude Stein | As well as landscape, she also meditates here on space, literature, democracy, superstition, propaganda, national belonging, and identity. (The old woman said I am I because my little dog knows me, but the dog... |
| Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750. 750 |
| Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted... |
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