The Great Succession: Henry James and the Legacy of Hawthorne

by Robert Emmet Long

Book Overview

The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates James transformation of Hawthorne s romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of James early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822984741
• ISBN13: 9780822984740
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"