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The Bostonians is one of James’s most provocative and astute portrayals of a world caught between old values and the lure of progress. Richard Lansdown’s introduction discusses The Bostonians as James’s most successful political work and his funniest novel. This edition contains extracts from Tocqueville and from James’s ‘The American ...
This edition, though based on the three-volume printing, places the break after Chapter 20.) _The Bostonians_ was excluded for financial reasons from the New York Edition by the publisher, to James's regret, along with several other novels. It was next reprinted in the 1921-23 Macmillan edition of James's fiction. This file contains chapters 1-21.
31 de out. de 2020 · Trotz der Voreingenommenheit des Autors gegenüber feministischen Ideen und einer überraschenden Sympathie für den Südstaatler, die sich in der nicht ideologiefreien Gewichtung der Figuren und des Handlungsablaufs niederschlägt, kann The Bostonians als eines der bedeutendsten sozialkritischen Werke James' über sein Heimatland angesehen werden.
9 de dez. de 2003 · This 19th Century novel is verbose a la James but no less wordy than an Anthony Trollope novel. We must remember that James inspired another important literary figure who wrote about women and their positions in society, the inexpressible Edith Wharton. The Bostonians was not welcomed by many when it was published and it is even less popular today.
Publishing history: _The Bostonians_ first appeared in the _Century Magazine_ from February 1885 to February 1886. The text followed here is that of the one-volume edition (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1886). In 1886 Macmillan also published in London a three-volume edition, with identical text except for pagination, extra-leading,
23 de jun. de 2018 · THE BOSTONIANS by Henry JamesABOUT THE BOOK:The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and th...
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I'm writing a book that is partly set in Boston, slightly later than in the film. I knew that Henry James was a writer who is insightful about the nuances of society and so it proved with The Bostonians. Although set in a different period to mine, (1919 post WW1) it was a useful study of how men perceive independent women.
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