A wide ranging discussion of the impact of the figure and work of James upon contemporary and later writers and artists. The use of aspects of his person by admirers and critics alike is explored in discussions of how he appears in the work of Violet Piaget, Edith Wharton, Gore Vidal, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Ford Madox Ford, Susan Sontag and Somerset Maugham. In addition, the author argues that Jamesian icons and motifs have been hugely influential and can be found in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, and Stoppard's The Real Thing, as well as in the works of Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Judith Krantz, Sylvia Plath, Joseph Conrad, and Agatha Christie among others. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Tintner, a Jamesian scholar and author of five other books detailing influences on Henry James, now attempts to show how others have mined James's work, his literary themes, and his very persona for literature, film, opera, and advertisements. In list after list, Tintner compares what she perceives as reinventions and adaptations of James's pieces by both his contemporaries and modern popular artists as well. Considering that most of James's stories have similar plots with differing approaches and that his texts are routinely assigned in schools, one is not surprised that many writers would appear to borrow Jamesian material, both consciously and subconsciously. Tintner's research does, as usual, have breadth and depth of detail, and yet she sees her compilation of examples showing his ubiquitous presence as "open-ended." For comprehensive James collections.?Cathy Sabol, Northern Virginia Community Coll., Manassas
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