The Critical Reception of Henry James: Creating a Master

by Linda Simon

Book Overview

Comprehensive survey and analysis of the scholarship and criticism on perhaps the greatest American writer.

Although some of Henry James's contemporary critics deemed him just short of a great writer, history has elevated him to indisputable preeminence in the American canon. Linda Simon chronicles and analyzes James criticism beginningwith contemporary newspaper and magazine reviews and ending with current academic criticism. The story begins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134417
• ISBN13: 9781571134417
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"