After a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry
James settled with his family in New England, first in what he
regarded as an outpost of Europe, Newport, and later in Cambridge.
The family letters (the initial inspiration for this
autobiographical enterprise), many of which recount the early
career of William James at Harvard and in Germany, also reveal
Henry James Sr.'s views on the intellectual, philosophical, and
social issues of the time. Henry Jr., aspiring to be "just
"literary, "" acknowledges his indebtedness to the widely cultured
artist John La Farge, whose friendship he enjoyed during
adolescence. The Civil War is recorded through the letters of his
younger brother, Wilky, while Henry recalls a Whitmanesque longing
for the Union soldiers he met and talked to. The death of a beloved
cousin, Mary Temple, who would become the inspiration for some of
his greatest fictional heroines, is documented through the
passionate, questioning letters she wrote in her final year of
life. In "The Middle Years" James, newly resident in London, gives
his impressions of some of the literary "lions" of the time, most
notably George Eliot and Tennyson. This first fully annotated
critical edition of "Notes of a Son and Brother" and "The Middle
Years" both offers the reader extensive support in appreciating the
demands of James's late prose and illuminates the context in which
one of literature's most influential figures developed a
characteristic voice.
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