The American Essays

The American Essays
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 069101471X
ISBN-13 : 9780691014715
Rating : 4/5 (715 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The American Essays by : Henry James

Download or read book The American Essays written by Henry James and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one, among American writers, was more contemporary or had a more powerful grasp of American history and American myth," writes Leon Edel of Henry James. This collection of James's essays on American letters, together with some of his miscellaneous writings on other American subjects, is a pivotal document in the reassessment of James as less cloistered--and more American--than previously supposed. James is relaxed and informal as he writes of Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Godkin, Norton, and Howells: he is fondly recalling--but also criticizing--the cultural orthodoxy in which he was reared. The American Essays remarkably prefigures current efforts to revise and challenge the aesthetic idealism of the Emersonian tradition.


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