Henry James Goes to ParisHenry 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 new artistic developments teeming around him during his Paris sojourn. But living in England twenty years later, he would recall the aesthetic lessons of Paris, and his memories of the radical perspectives opened up by French novelists and painters would help transform James into the writer of his adventurous later fiction. A narrative that combines biography and criticism and uses James's writings to tell the story from his point of view, Henry James Goes to Paris vividly brings to life the young American artist's Paris year--and its momentous artistic and personal consequences. |
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... essays he would write on Balzac—more than on any other author—appeared in the New York magazine Galaxy, dated December 1875, just after his arrival in Paris. Henry James, Jr.—as he signed himself at this point in his life—was intent on ...
... essays on the Russian novelist, published in North American Review in 1874. Henry, Jr., sent it to its subject, receiving in return an amiable reply, and an invitation to call when in Paris. He in fact wrote to Turgenev almost ...
... essay, he notes (in discussion of Spring Torrents) that Turgenev “almost invariably appeals at the outset to our distinctively moral curiosity, our sympathy with character.” And in his final piece on Turgenev, in 1896, James returns to ...
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Contents
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2 The Dream of an Intenser Experience | 53 |
3 What a Droll Thing to Represent | 79 |
4 Flauberts Nerds | 101 |
5 The Quickened Notation of Our Modernity | 129 |
6 The Death of Zola Sex in the French Novel and the Improper | 156 |
7 For the Sake of This End | 177 |
Chariot of Fire | 205 |
Notes | 211 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Acknowledgments | 241 |
Index | 243 |