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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2011
      April 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511553639
      9780521316552
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553639
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.23kg, 176 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1900-1945
      Series:
      British and Irish Authors
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1900-1945
    Series:
    British and Irish Authors
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    Judith Woolf's elegantly written book introduces school and university students, as well as the interested general reader, to the major novels of Henry James (1843–1916), the American writer who became a great European novelist and died a naturalised Englishman. The principal novels in which James explored his central theme, the betrayal of innocence, are discussed in a lucid way which offers fresh intrepretations and communicates to the non-specialist reader the excitement rather than the difficulty of reading James. Difficulty is nonetheless often a feature of his work, and Judith Woolf does not shun important questions. She places him in the context of the history of the English novel (Fielding, Richardson, Dickens, and George Eliot), focusing on traditions of tragic and comic vision and on the subtleties of expression and perspective enabled by the narrative form. The book includes a short account of James's life, a list of his works and their dates, and a selected guide to further criticism.

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