The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates JamesÆ transformation of HawthorneÆs romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of JamesÆ early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.
| ISBN: | 9780822984740 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 1979 |
| Author: | Robert Emmet Long |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 216 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: general |