The Critical Reception Of Henry James

This is the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of Henry James's writing ever assembled.

Presents critical analyses of five novels by Henry James, each with a plot summary and list of characters, and includes a biography of James, and an index of themes and ideas.

This collection of essays, prepared by an international team of scholars and translators, examines the ways in which Henry James was translated, published and reviewed in Europe.

Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.

This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James’s fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing—character, plot, point of view, inspiration—and explains how he came to write novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The American. As Blackmur puts it, “criticism has never been more ambitious, nor more useful.” The latest edition of this influential work includes a foreword by bestselling author Colm Tóibín, whose critically acclaimed novel The Master is told from the point of view of Henry James. As a guide not only to James’s inspiration and execution, but also to his frustrations and triumphs, this volume will be valuable both to students of James’s fiction and to aspiring writers.

This is a history of the Scandinavian critical reception of Henry James. Lilliedahl supplies a spectrum of James criticism from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark from the first notices of James in this these countries down to the 1980s. She also provides a summary of the argument of each piece.