Washington Square (Wordsworth Classics)

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		Washington Square (Wordsworth Classics)
		Washington Square (Wordsworth Classics)

基本信息·出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd
·页码：176 页
·出版日期：2001年08月
·ISBN：1840224274
·条形码：9781840224276
·版本：New Ed
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Wordsworth Classics

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Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell. Professor of English Literature. University of Keele Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. 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 1870s, a period of great change in the life of the city. 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. 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.

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