Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Gorra, Michael
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Gorra, Michael

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this...
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Gorra, Michael

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Gorra, Michael

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

BD$43.23
Author: Michael Gorra
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Michael Gorra
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 08/05/2013
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780871406705

About the Author
Gorra, Michael: - The author of Portrait of Novel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College and the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.
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