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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... morals hover in the background as he gratefully takes possession of the old world. It's somewhat surprising that the Paris James discovered in 1875 was so prosperous and comfortable. France had only just emerged from the maximum trauma ...
... moral pariah in Cambridge. But in writing to Henry he emphasized especially that Peirce was like a “nettle” that must be grasped firmly. “I confess I like him very much in spite of his peculiarities, for he is a man of genius and ...
... moral curiosity, our sympathy with character.” And in his final piece on Turgenev, in 1896, James returns to praise of “that sign of the born novelist which resides in a respect unconditioned for the freedom and vitality, the ...
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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 |