Washington Square (häftad, eng)
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Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele.
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Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele.
Washington Square marks the culmination of James''s apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870''s, a period of great change in the life of the city.
This change is explored through the device of setting the novel''s action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion.
Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine''s suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 176 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
Utgivningsdatum | 2001-08-05 |
ISBN | 9781840224276 |
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