1st Edition

Henry James The Crooked Corridor

By Elizabeth Stevenson Copyright 2000
184 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Certain readers and critics have faulted Henry James for two contradictory reasons. He has been thought a writer limited in scope and depth in his treatment of a particular class of people. On the other hand, he has been thought to be too complex, too extreme in putting into difficult language his view of relationships between his chosen characters.Elizabeth Stevenson depicts Henry James as a... Read more
Part One: The Man; Part Two: Scope; Part Three: Theme; Part Four: Variations upon the Theme; Part Five: Attitudes; Part Six: Means; Part Seven: The House of Life and the Palace of Art; Bibliographical Note

Biography

Elizabeth Stevenson