A01=Henry James
Abolitionism
Alfred A. Knopf
American humor
American literature
American studies
Amos Bronson Alcott
Anthony Trollope
Apologue
Aristophanes
Author
Author_Henry James
Category=DNL
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Eliot Norton
Charles Reade
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Critical Essays (Orwell)
Criticism
Determination
Epictetus
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Ernest Renan
Erudition
Essay
F. O. Matthiessen
Foreword
Franklin Pierce
Fraser's Magazine
Frederick the Great
George William Curtis
God Knows (novel)
Grand style (rhetoric)
Hall Caine
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Harland
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Historical fiction
Illustration
Jacques Derrida
James Fenimore Cooper
James Russell Lowell
Kanada (philosopher)
Leon Edel
Literature
Martin Malia
Mary Moody Emerson
Matthew Arnold
Memoir
Michael Dummett
Mr.
Napoleon III
Nathaniel Hawthorne
New Puritans
North American Review
Novelist
Percy Lubbock
Philip Rahv
Poetry
Precaution (novel)
Prose
Putnam's Magazine
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Nozick
Romanticism
Rudyard Kipling
Superiority (short story)
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Kuhn
Transcendentalism
W. H. Auden
Wilkie Collins
William Dean Howells
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691014715
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
"No one, among American writers, was more contemporary or had a more powerful grasp of American history and American myth," writes Leon Edel of Henry James. This collection of James's essays on American letters, together with some of his miscellaneous writings on other American subjects, is a pivotal document in the reassessment of James as less cloistered--and more American--than previously supposed. James is relaxed and informal as he writes of Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Godkin, Norton, and Howells: he is fondly recalling--but also criticizing--the cultural orthodoxy in which he was reared. The American Essays remarkably prefigures current efforts to revise and challenge the aesthetic idealism of the Emersonian tradition.
