Washington Square(Wordsworth Classics)|报价¥19.00|图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction 文学/小说,United States 美国,Henry James
品牌:Henry James
基本信息
·出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
·页码:176 页码
·出版日:2001年
·ISBN:9781840224276
·条码:9781840224276
·版次:New Ed
·装帧:平装
·英语:英语
·丛书名:Wordsworth Classics
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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 1870s, 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.
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