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James’s father, Henry James Sr. (1811–1882), an affluent and well-connected journalist who wrote and lectured on religious subjects, designed a “sensuous education” for his namesake and for Henry’s elder brother, William (1842–1910). Like her husband, the self-effacing Mary Robertson Walsh James (1810–1882) was descended from ...
24 de mar. de 2023 · Discover anew the life and influence of Henry James, part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies series. In The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography, Peter Collister, an established critic and authority on Henry James, offers an original and fully documented account of one of America’s finest writers, who was both a creative practitioner and theorist of the novel.
Henry James Biography. Henry James has been called the first of the great psychological realists in our time. Honored as one of the greatest artists of the novel, he is also regarded as one of America's most influential critics and literary theorists. During the fifty years of his literary career, which spanned the period from the end of the ...
Henry James - Realism, Novels, Criticism: Henry James’s career was one of the longest and most productive—and most influential—in American letters. A master of prose fiction from the first, he practiced it as a fertile innovator, enlarged the form, and placed upon it the stamp of a highly individual method and style. He wrote for 51 years—20 novels, 112 tales, 12 plays, several volumes ...
Henry’s engaging stories of Americans exploring the prim and proper lifestyle of the Europeans have gained him immense popularity. James has to his credit 22 novels, more than a hundred short stories, autobiographical works, several plays and critical essays. Henry James was born into a wealthy and educated family in New York on April 15, 1843.
Abstract. This chapter presents a brief biography of Henry James (1843–1916). It recounts James's family and social life and remarkable productivity as an author, having written more than one hundred short stories and twenty novels in addition to plays, biographies, travel books and essays, notebooks, and thousands of letters.
Henry James Biography. H enry James, now considered one of the world’s greatest novelists, desperately wanted to be a successful playwright. He spent several different periods of his life ...
