Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age - Paperback
by Peter Brooks
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Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379210ISBN-10:168137921XUPC:9781681379210Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.70 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC5T8CFYTK
Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilded Age. In 1904, after two decades of living and travelling abroad, Henry James returned to the United States to discover a world drastically different from the one he had left behind. Suddenly,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379210ISBN-10:168137921XUPC:9781681379210Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.70 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC5T8CFYTK
Peter Brooks is a literary critic and author of several books of nonfiction, including The Melodramatic Imagination, Reading for the Plot, Henry James Goes to Paris, which won the Christian Gauss Award, and Seduced by Story, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is professor emeritus at Yale.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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