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Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of James's 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 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city.
This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's 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 Catherine's 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.
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- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Publication Date:05/08/2001
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- ISBN:9781840224276
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Publication Date:05/08/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9781840224276
