Henry James: Literary Criticism Vol. 2 (LOA #23): European Writers and Prefaces to the New York Edition

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Library of America, 31.12.1984 - 1442 Seiten
Henry James, renowned as one of the world’s great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, and masterly critics of modern times. This Library of America volume is one of two volumes of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, with many pieces never before available in book form. It includes reviews of a great number of European writers, especially French writers, along with more general essays and the Prefaces Henry James wrote for the New York Edition of his works, published between 1907 and 1909.

More than one hundred reviews and essays are gathered by author, so that readers can trace the development of James’s complex, meditative, and highly volatile attitudes toward a wide spectrum of literature. James reviews the formidable Honoré de Balzac (with his “huge, all compassing, all desiring, all devouring love of reality”), Gustave Flaubert (“a pearl-diver, breathless in the thick element while he groped for the priceless word”), and Ivan Turgenev, the Russian visitor in Paris, with whom James felt great personal affinity, even though Tugenev “lacked the immense charm of absorbed inventiveness.”

James delivers his critical judgments with great elegance and point, especially when he discusses the performance of other critics like Hippolyte Taine and Augustin Sainte-Beuve, and, of course, he can be wonderfully acerbic. An early moralistic essay on Baudelaire finds Poe “vastly the greater charlatan of the two, and the greater genius.”

James brings his critical zest, exhilaration, and independence of judgment to bear on writers as diverse as Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier, J. W. von Goethe, and Gabriele D’Annunzio.

Readers will find, in the complete collection of the Prefaces, one of literature’s most revealing artistic autobiographies, a wholly absorbing account of how writing gets written, and a vision of the possibilities for fiction which critics and novelists of later times will find immensely instructive and liberating.

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AndréMarie and JeanJacques Ampère
9
Honoré de Balzac
31
Charles Baudelaire
152
Charles de Bernard and Gustave Flaubert
159
Victor Cherbuliez
167
Père Chocarne
197
Alphonse Daudet
205
Ximenes Doudan
258
Anne Sophie Swetchine
819
Hippolyte Taine
826
Victor Tissot
857
Moritz Busch
905
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
944
Julius Rodenberg
950
Ivan Turgenev
968
Roderick Hudson Vol I 1907
1039

Gustave Droz
268
Alexandre Dumas
275
Gustave Flaubert
289
French Writers I
344
Eugène Fromentin
347
MarieThérèse Rodet Geoffrin
390
Edmond de Goncourt
403
Eugénie de Guérin
429
Victor Hugo
447
Joseph Joubert
463
John Lemoinne
478
Guy de Maupassant
521
Charles de Mazade
555
Prosper Mérimée
562
Gustave de Molinari
582
Émile Montégut
588
Henri Regnault
619
Ernest Renan
628
Madame de Sabran
646
Charles Augustin SainteBeuve
664
George Sand
692
The New Life 1902 1914
755
Jules Sandeau
764
Jean de Thommeray Le Colonel Evrard 1874
799
Etudes Critiques de Littérature 1876
807
The American Vol II 1907
1053
The Portrait of a Lady Vols III IV 1908
1070
The Princess Casamassima Vols V VI 1908
1086
The Tragic Muse Vols VII VIII 1908
1103
The Awkward Age Vol IX 1908
1120
The Spoils of Poynton A London Life The Chaperon Vol
1138
What Maisie Knew The Pupil In the Cage Vol XI 1908
1156
The Aspern Papers The Turn of the Screw The Liar The
1173
The Reverberator Madame de Mauves A Passionate Pilgrim
1192
Lady Barbarina The Siege of London An International Episode
1208
The Lesson of the Master The Death of the Lion The Next
1225
The Author of Beltraffio The Middle Years Greville Fane
1238
The Altar of the Dead The Beast in the Jungle The Birthplace
1246
Daisy Miller Pandora The Patagonia The Marriages The Real
1269
Chronology
1343
Note on the Texts
1359
205
1364
907
1368
Notes
1371
Index
1383
944
1386
258
1387
953
1404
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Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. His many works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima(1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl(1904). He died in London in February 1916.

Leon Edel (1907-1997), volume editor, was professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. His five-volume biography of Henry James received both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Mark Wilson, associate editor of this volume, was professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

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