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About this book
The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates James' transformation of Hawthorne's romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of James' early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Earlier James: The Question of Hawthorne
- 2. James's Apprenticeship: The Hawthorne Aspect
- 3. Roderick Hudson: The Merging of Opposite Traditions
- 4. The Europeans and Daisy Miller: Motifs Transfigured
- 5. James's Hawthorne: Criticism as Self-Definition
- 6. Washington Square: Romance Shadows in the Drawing Room
- 7. The Portrait of a Lady: The Great Dramatic Chiaroscuro
- 8. The Blithedale Romance and The Bostonians: From Rural Tragedy to Urban Satire
- 9. The Blithedale Romance and The Bostonians: The Pattern of Transformation
- 10. Conclusion: The End of James's Earlier Period
- Notes
- Index
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