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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... Turn of the Screw (1898), In the Cage (1898), The Awkward Age (1899), to The Sacred Fount (1901)—and then, belatedly, The Beast in the Jungle (1903)—James's fiction appears to evidence a radical dis-orientation, a displacement of the ...
... turn of the Orléanist Comte de Paris. Unimaginable as it may seem to us today, France probably would have become a monarchy in 1873 or 1874 had it not been for the intransigence of Chambord, who was a prime example of the adage that the ...
... turn of mind, didn't like to “turn over questions.” But Peirce read Roderick Hudson and declared himself an “extreme admirer” of the novel. Yet his reading of his dinner companion seems to have ended there. Years later, he queried ...
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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 |