Description
Henry James and the Novel culls autobiographical excerpts from James's other writings--his A Small Boy and Others and Italy Revisited, Roman Rides. Contemporary Reviews and Criticism provides both chronological and critical perspective onThe Portrait of a Lady. Four reviews from 1882 outline the novel's initial critical reception. Seven important essays from the period 1954-1991 provide a wide range of critical responses by Dorothy Van Ghent, William H. Gass, Laurence B. Holland, Charles Feidelson, Louis Auchincloss, William Veeder, and Millicent Bell Bibliographical Aids includes judiciously selected secondary works on James from the wealth of material published yearly.
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