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22 de mai. de 2024 · Henry James 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 wisdom of the Old, as illustrated in such works as Daisy Miller.
- Leon Edel
1663 Words7 Pages. ”The so-called international theme is a major theme in Henry James ' work - in his fiction and non-fiction, in his novels and stories, and in his more, as well as less, accomplished texts: the American who is longing for Europe, or just to get away from America, and who walks museum galleries of the major cultural capitals ...
This chapter examines Henry James's writings in the 1890s and into the new century, with emphasis on his international theme within the contexts of globalism, postmodernism, and cosmopolitanism. It suggests that James was a man of enormous contradictions and self-doubt, which is evident in his fiction such as The Tragic Muse, The Golden Bowl ...
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. It argues that, whereas in his novels and stories of the 1870s/early 1880s ( Roderick Hudson, Daisy ...
- Priscilla Roberts
- 2012
24 de dez. de 2018 · Through the publication of The Portrait of a Lady, in 1880-1881, James was chiefly interested in the now famous “international theme,” the learning experiences and conflicts of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America (the former situation being by far the more frequent).
28 de jan. de 2020 · 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.
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 lit...
