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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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re-reading a classic that I read in high school, in part to contrast the difference in my reactions between the two readings. I became much more sympathetic to the daughter figure this time and the sarcasm of the doctor is a lot more biting and cold. Also tried to appreciate why James wanted to dedicate an entire novel to a topic so mundane.
評分A simple love tragedy, but Henry James provided exceptionally smart insights into most trivial details, which made this book a lovely reinterpretation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".
評分A simple love tragedy, but Henry James provided exceptionally smart insights into most trivial details, which made this book a lovely reinterpretation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".
評分drama 162'
評分很多生詞,看得似懂非懂。Sophie 黃小姐藉我書多年,終於看完。
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