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Autor: JAMES,Henry
Editorial: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS
Lenguaje: Inglés
ISBN13: 9781840224276
Reseña: Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell Professor of English Literature University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of Jamess apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870s a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novels action during the 1840s similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper a celebrated physician and his sister Lavinia Penniman his daughter Catherine and Catherines suitor Morris Townsend James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.
