Washington Square - Wordsworth Classics - Pape... - Henry James
Washington Square - Wordsworth Classics - Pape... - Henry James Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. This change is explored through the device of…
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Washington Square - Wordsworth Classics - Pape... - Henry James
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. 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. 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.
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.
Washington Square James Henry