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Henry James's Style of Retrospect - Late Personal Writings, 1890-1915 (Hardcover)
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Henry James's Style of Retrospect - Late Personal Writings, 1890-1915 (Hardcover)
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Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with
the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of
his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent
in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the
observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration
and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output
gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal
writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective
non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of
genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes,
textual revisions and accounts of revisiting familiar places,
cultural and literary criticism, biography and autobiography, and
family memoir. Oliver Herford proposes that we read the late
personal writings as a coherent sequence, bound together by a close
texture of cross-references and allusive echoes, and united by
James's newly discovered sense for the literary possibilities of
non-fiction. Closely analyzing the style of these writings, this
study offers a boldly revisionist account of the way style itself
challenges and preoccupies the very late James. A linked series of
innovative close readings takes the major works of this period in
sequence, addressing a key point of style in each: particular
attention is paid to procedures of reference (to the historical
past, to real persons and places and objects), a dimension of style
often neglected and sometimes actively slighted in analyses of
James's late work. Henry James's Style of Retrospect asks what it
means for so distinguished a novelist to alter the foundations of
his written manner so strikingly in late life, and shows how we may
begin to reconfigure our understanding of late Jamesian aesthetics
accordingly.
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