The American essays / Henry James ; edited with an introduction and new foreword by Leon Edel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Henry, 1843-1916.

Contributor:

Edel, Leon, 1907-1997.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 296 pages

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1989]

Summary:

"No one, among American writers, was more contemporary or had a more powerful grasp of American history and American myth, " writes Leon Edel of Henry James. This collection of James's essays on American letters, together with some of his miscellaneous writings on other American subjects, is a pivotal document in the reassessment of James as less cloistered--and more American--than previously supposed. James is relaxed and informal as he writes of Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Godkin, Norton, and Howells: he is fondly recalling--but also criticizing--the cultural orthodoxy in which he was reared. The American Essays remarkably prefigures current efforts to revise and challenge the aesthetic idealism of the Emersonian tradition.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Vintage Books, 1956.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0691068224

9780691068220

069101471X

9780691014715

OCLC:

243491219