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Book Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson  A Record of Friendship and Criticism   Letters   Edited with an Introduction by Janet Adam Smith

Download or read book Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson A Record of Friendship and Criticism Letters Edited with an Introduction by Janet Adam Smith written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson

Download or read book Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the correspondence between the noted nineteenth-century authors.

Book A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion

Download or read book A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion written by J R Hammond and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert Louis Stevenson

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Book Robert Louis Stevenson

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson written by William Gray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than most writers, Robert Louis Stevenson requires a Literary Life. Fascination with Stevenson's life (the 'Stevenson biography' is almost a minor genre) has tended to eclipse his literary achievement. This study focuses on Stevenson's writing practice within the different geographical, cultural and political contexts that shaped it, from Scotland to the South Seas. Following Stevenson's own views on biography, the book is not structured primarily in terms of chronology, but is more a kind of literary geography than traditional literary history.

Book Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson

Download or read book Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

Book The American Novel Through Henry James

Download or read book The American Novel Through Henry James written by Clarence Hugh Holman and published by A H M Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson

Download or read book The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Malcolm Elwin and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Henry James

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  • Author : Peter Collister
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2023-03-27
  • ISBN : 1119483093
  • Pages : 487 pages

Download or read book The Life of Henry James written by Peter Collister and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover anew the life and influence of Henry James, part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies series. In The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography, Peter Collister, an established critic and authority on Henry James, offers an original and fully documented account of one of America’s finest writers, who was both a creative practitioner and theorist of the novel. In this volume, James’s life in all its personal and cultural richness is examined alongside a detailed scrutiny of his fiction, essays, biographies, autobiographies, travel writing, plays and reviews. James was a dedicated and brilliant letter-writer and his biographer make judicious use of this material, some of it previously unpublished, evoking in the novelist’s own words the society within which he moved and worked. His gift for friendship, often resulting in close relationships with both men and women, are sensitively explored. Near the beginning of his long and highly productive life, James left America to immerse himself in European culture and history – a necessity, he felt, for the developing artist. In an ironic symmetry he witnessed in his youth the effects of the American Civil War and in his last days, finally becoming a British citizen, despaired at the unfolding tragedy of the Great War in Europe. Sustained, nevertheless, by his own creative energy, he never ceased to believe in the capacity of the arts to enhance and give significance to life. Provides well-informed accounts of Henry James’s youth in New York City, his unconventional education, his extensive travel in Europe, his eventual assimilation into British society, his development as a writer and his personal relationships as a single man. Features discussions of James’s major works in a variety of genres from an assured theoretical and historical perspective. Assesses James’s developing quest for dramatic form in his fiction – the ‘scenic art’ – as well as his critical writing which was to have a lasting influence on the literature and aesthetic values of the twentieth century. Discusses his achieved aspiration to be ‘just literary’, to become what he called that ‘queer monster’, an artist. Charts James’s lifelong interest in art and theatre. An incisive discussion of the life of an author of major stature, The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography offers a refreshingly lucid and human account of a novelist and his often challenging, but rewarding, writing. Peter Collister, a former college Assistant Principal, has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. He is the author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America and later edited for the university presses of Cambridge and Virginia the award-winning volumes: The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James's autobiographical writings, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene.

Book Henry James in Context

Download or read book Henry James in Context written by David McWhirter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.

Book Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism written by A. Sandison and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-05-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite attracting the admiration of Modernists like Nabokov and Borges, Stevenson remains for many an apologist for the lost world of the romance. This is not only to misread and simplify his fiction, it is greatly to undervalue his lively, forward-looking literary essays. Strenously resisting the authority of the literary 'fathers' (though haunted by the complexities of paternity), Stevenson reveals strong affinities with emergent Modernism. It is from this perspective that Alan Sandison's latest book (the first to appear for nearly thirty years) conducts a lively and readable re-examination of this often underrated writer.

Book Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson

Download or read book Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book A Bibliography of the Work by and on Henry James

Download or read book A Bibliography of the Work by and on Henry James written by University of Toronto. Department of English and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry James and the Art of Impressions

Download or read book Henry James and the Art of Impressions written by John Scholar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James criticized the impressionism that was revolutionizing French painting and fiction. He satirized the British aesthetic movement whose keystone was impressionist criticism. So why, time and again in important parts of his literary work, did James use the word 'impression'? Henry James and the Art of Impressions argues that James tried to wrest the impression from the impressionists and to recast it in his own art of the novel. Interdisciplinary in its range, philosophical and literary in its focus, the book shows the place of James's work within the wider cultural history of impressionism. It draws on painting, philosophy, psychology, literature, and critical theory to examine James's art criticism, early literary criticism, travel writing, reflections on his own fiction, and the three great novels of his major phase, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. It shows how the language of impressions enables James to represent the most intense moments of consciousness of his characters. It argues that the Jamesian impression is best understood as a family of related ideas bound together by James's attempt to reconcile the novel's value as a mimetic form with its value as a transformative creative activity.

Book The Twentieth Century

Download or read book The Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reader s Adviser and Bookman s Manual

Download or read book Reader s Adviser and Bookman s Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: