Portrait of a Novel Michael Gorra (Smith College)

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Portrait of a Novel Michael Gorra (Smith College)

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...literary criticism at its most lucid and engaging, as it shows James embarking on his great work and displays Gorra, filled with enthusiasm and insight, as the book's most ideal and intelligent reader. Colm Toibin, Books of the Year 2012, The Guardian

Portrait of a Novel Résumé

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece Michael Gorra (Smith College)

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 shows how this scandalous story came to be written. Travelling to Italy, France and England, he sheds new light on James's family, the European literary circles of George Eliot, Flaubert and Turgenev in which James made his name, and the psychological forces that enabled him to create the most memorable female protagonist. A piercing detective story, Portrait of a Novel provides a brilliant account of the greatest American novel of expatriate life ever written.

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...he [Gorra] has written the kind of patient, sensitive, acute study that gifted teachers should write but rarely do. -- London Review of Books
Michael Gorra...has pulled off an astounding feat...in this impressive study...Gorra goes anywhere that strikes his fancy, and the result is splendid: a book to reread in years to come, a model for what criticism can do when happily married to biography. -- Literary Review

À propos de Michael Gorra (Smith College)

Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and, for his work as a reviewer, of the Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle. His books include The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War; Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of on American Masterpiece, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany; After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie; The English Novel at Mid-Century; and, as editor, The Portable Conrad and the Norton Critical Editions of The Sound and the Fury and The Portrait of a Lady.

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GOR007821329

ISBN 13

9780871406705

ISBN 10

0871406705

Titre

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece Michael Gorra (Smith College)

Auteur

Michael Gorra (Smith College)

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Éditeur

WW Norton & Co

Année de publication

20130809

Nombre de pages

416

Prix

Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award 2012

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