WORDSWORTH CLASSICS : WASHINGTON SQUARE PB B

“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 1870’s, 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.”

• Εκδότης: WORDSWORTH
• Χώρα Έκδοσης: ΑΓΓΛΙΑ
• Συγγραφέας: HENRY JAMES-IAN F.A. BELL-DR KEITH CARABINE
• Γλώσσα: ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ
• Σελίδες: 176
• Διαστάσεις: 198Χ129Χ9
• Ημ/νία Έκδοσης: 05/08/2001