WASHINGTON SQUARE H.James

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.

Κωδικός Προϊόντος: 025606

Εκδότης: WORDSWORTH

Συγγραφέας: Henry James-Ian F.A. Bell-Dr Keith Carabine

ISBN: 1-84022-427-6

EAN: 9781840224276

Imprint: WORDSWORTH

Δέσιμο: 4122

Σελίδες: 176

Διαστάσεις: 198X129X9

Χώρα έκδοσης: ΑΓΓΛΙΑ

Ημερ. ‘Εκδοσης: 5/8/2001

Βάρος: 0.1 kg