Henry James Goes to Paris - Softcover

Brooks, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691138427 ISBN 13: 9780691138428

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Henry James's reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the story of the year--1875 to 1876--when the young novelist moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of the early modern movement in art. As Peter Brooks skillfully recounts, James largely failed to appreciate or even understand the...

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"Under the guise of simply 'telling a story' about the young Henry James's stay in Paris in 1875-76, Peter Brooks describes the progressive emergence of the whole of novelistic modernity during the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. You have to be, like Brooks, both historian and theorist, a scholar both of things French and American, to so masterfully carry out this project."--Philippe Hamon, Professor...

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About the Author

Peter Brooks is the Mellon Visiting Professor at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including Reading for the Plot, The Melodramatic Imagination, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, Troubling Confessions, and Realist Vision. He has also published a novel, World Elsewhere (Simon & Schuster).

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0691138427
• ISBN 13: 9780691138428
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272