Henry James - Wikipedia
WEBHenry James OM ( 15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
Henry James | Novelist, Short Story Writer, Critic | Britannica
WEBApr 11, 2024 · Henry James (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 28, 1916, London, England) was an American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen from 1915, a great figure in the transatlantic culture. His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in clash with the corruption and …
Henry James’s Best Books: A Guide - The New York Times
WEBDec 20, 2023 · Of his more than 20 novels, dozens of story collections and novellas and volumes of criticism, letters, essays and poems, these are the most essential books to read to understand the great legacy...
Henry James - New World Encyclopedia
WEBHenry James in 1890. Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916), was one of the greatest prose writers in American literature. Enormously prolific, James authored 22 novels, hundreds of short stories, and dozens of volumes of non-fiction including biographies, travel writing, art and literary criticism, and memoirs.
Henry James - Realism, Novels, Criticism | Britannica
WEBHenry James (born June 3, 1811, Albany, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 18, 1882, Cambridge, Mass.) was an American philosophical theologian, the father of the novelist Henry James and the philosopher William James.
Henry James | Poetry Foundation
WEBHenry James. 1843–1916. American novelist Henry James (1843 - 1916) in his study. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Traveling often throughout his long and productive life, Henry James wrote fiction and travel literature about Americans in Europe and Europeans in America during the great epoch of transatlantic tourism and exchange in …
Who was Henry James? | Britannica
WEBHenry James was an American novelist and critic. During his lifetime he wrote 20 novels, 112 tales, and 12 plays in addition to several volumes of travel writing and criticism. Today he is best remembered as the author of the novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and the novella The Turn of the Screw (1898). Who was Henry James?
The Realism of Henry James – Literary Theory and Criticism
WEBJan 8, 2018 · Though Henry James (1843–1916) was an American novelist, he saw the word “American” as embracing a certain cultural openness, or in his words, a “fusion and synthesis of the various National tendencies of the world.”1 The experience underlying James’ creative and critical work was international in scope.
Henry James - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBA foundational figure in the theory of fiction, “Henry James” as literary and cultural construct has become a rich field of play for critical theories and interpretive approaches of every stripe.
Henry James - Victorian Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBMar 2, 2011 · Henry James (b. 1843–d. 1916), a prolific writer of fiction, travel writing, essays, book reviews, and plays, was one of the most influential writers of the 19th century. Born in New York, as a child he traveled extensively in Europe with his family.
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