01421nam a22001697a 4500 KCU 20240930131736.0 240930b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d KCU eng KCU KCU AACR2 23 813.4 JAM James, Henry Author Washington Square / Henry James 2001: Wordsworth Classic; 2001. xxi, 151 p. : 4.92 x 0.35 x 7.87 inches 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 1870s, 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. ddc BK 0 36827 36827 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC KCU/LIB/01 KCU/LIB/01 FIC 2024-09-30 purchase 0 813.4 JAM 5958 2024-09-30 13:19:07 1 2024-09-30 BK