Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780871406705ISBN-10:871406705UPC:9780871406705Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCNCD5FN2N
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
Henry James (1843 1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel the scandalous story of the expatriate...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780871406705ISBN-10:871406705UPC:9780871406705Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCNCD5FN2N
Gorra, Michael: - The author of Portrait of Novel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College and the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.
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