The Great Succession
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The Great Succession

Henry James and the Legacy of Hawthorne

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The Great Succession

Henry James and the Legacy of Hawthorne

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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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Year
2010
ISBN
9780822976240

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. The Earlier James: The Question of Hawthorne
  4. 2. James's Apprenticeship: The Hawthorne Aspect
  5. 3. Roderick Hudson: The Merging of Opposite Traditions
  6. 4. The Europeans and Daisy Miller: Motifs Transfigured
  7. 5. James's Hawthorne: Criticism as Self-Definition
  8. 6. Washington Square: Romance Shadows in the Drawing Room
  9. 7. The Portrait of a Lady: The Great Dramatic Chiaroscuro
  10. 8. The Blithedale Romance and The Bostonians: From Rural Tragedy to Urban Satire
  11. 9. The Blithedale Romance and The Bostonians: The Pattern of Transformation
  12. 10. Conclusion: The End of James's Earlier Period
  13. Notes
  14. Index