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Henry James, Jr. (1843 - 1916)

psychological realist author, writer of Portrait of a Lady and .

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Criticism about Henry James, Jr.

Henry James

http://www.bartleby.com/187/11.html

"Of the principal later novelists Howells held, on the whole, the broadest views. He built, with some limitations, on what he saw before him, not unconscious of Europe but aware that the way to a body of American fiction was action as well as argument and that in the production of a national literature imagination begets imagination."

Contains: Criticism, Extensive Bio

Author: Carl Van Doren

From: The American Novel Chapter 8; New York: MacMillan, 1921

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Henry James

http://www.bartleby.com/227/index.html#5

This lengthy analysis of the author's life and work includes sections on "The Question of JamesÕs Americanism", "His Passion for EuropeÓ", and "Americans in His Stories."

Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography

Author: Joseph Warren Beach

From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XVII: American Later National Literature, Part II

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Biographical sites about Henry James, Jr.

A Biographic Mystery

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gordon-james.html

"[James] was known for explorations of the inward life: the unvoiced exchange and the drama of hidden motives. These were his skills, as well as a power, beyond that of any other man, to plumb the unknown potentialities of women. Two women, in particular, provoked his attention -- a creative attention which claimed them through their untimely deaths."

Contains: Extensive Bio

Author: Lyndall Gordon

From: A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art Chapter 1; W. W. Norton & Company: 1998

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Other sites about Henry James, Jr.

Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites

http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/

This site links to sites of interest about Henry James. Most, though, are e-texts, movie reviews, and a link to the James-L bulletin board.

Contains: Works Available, Commentary, Webliography

Author: Richard Hathaway

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