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Portrait of a Novel - Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (Paperback)
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Portrait of a Novel - Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (Paperback)
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Henry James (1843 1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra
has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of
the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and
travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James s
masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary
critic, shows how this novel the scandalous story of the expatriate
American heiress Isabel Archer came to be written in the first
place. Traveling to Florence, Rome, Paris, and England, Gorra sheds
new light on James s family, the European literary circles George
Eliot, Flaubert, Turgenev in which James made his name, and the
psychological forces that enabled him to create this most memorable
of female protagonists. Appealing to readers of Menand s The
Metaphysical Club and McCullough s The Greater Journey, Portrait of
a Novel provides a brilliant account of the greatest American novel
of expatriate life ever written. It becomes a piercing detective
story on its own."
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