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29 de mar. de 2012 · Abstract. This article demonstrates how changes in Henry James' handling of the international theme, that is Europeans and Americans compared, can be correlated to alterations in the international position of the United States itself.
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Daisy Miller, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. European and American Character Many of the novels of Henry James—an American expatriate himself—are fascinated with the Old World and the New World, not necessarily as places themselves but rather in terms of how these places affect the development of character.
James is noted for his "international theme" -- that is, the complex relationships between na‹ve Americans and cosmopolitan Europeans. What his biographer Leon Edel calls James's first, or "international," phase encompassed such works as Transatlantic Sketches (travel pieces, 1875), The American (1877), Daisy Miller (1879), and a masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady (1881).
In 1904, the long-expatriated Henry James would board the Kaiser Wilhelm II and disembark in Hoboken, New Jersey. He had not stepped on native ground for over twenty years. The book that grew out of his visit, The American Scene (1907), captures the drama of returning to places changed beyond recognition or simply obliterated in the name of progress.
9 de jul. de 2022 · Analysis of Henry James’s Daisy Miller. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 9, 2022. Originally subtitled “A Study,” this novella was first published by Leslie Stephen, the father of Virginia Woolf, in the Cornhill Magazine. The choice of a British press cost Henry James his American rights. The sheer amount of pirated versions, however, hints ...
Though he is best known as a master of the international theme in tales and novels such as The Ambassadors (1903), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), and Daisy Miller (1878), James—like his friends and fellow novelists Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Henry Adams—also wrote letters and sketches that enrich and expand the genre of travel literature while tracing a history of taste ...
The International History Review Vol. 34, No. 1, March 2012, 89–114 The Geopolitics of Literature: the Shifting International Theme in the Works of Henry James Downloaded by [University of Hong Kong Libraries] at 18:22 29 March 2012 Priscilla Roberts* This article demonstrates how changes in Henry James’ handling of the international theme, that is Europeans and Americans compared, can be ...
