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, the future of world seemed to be in his native land, which he had once considered provincial, lacking in nourishment for the novelist. James thus set forth to refamiliarize himself with the United States, travelling the width and breadth of the land and exercising his acute powers of observation to document all that he saw.; James''s ten-month journey across America and its product, the ethnographic;work

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Peter Brooks

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• Authors: Peter Brooks
• Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2025
• EAN: 9781681379210
• ISBN: 978-1-68137-921-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies