Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Henry James's Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890-1915 by Oliver H - Picture 1 of 1

Henry James's Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890-1915 by Oliver Herford (Hardcover, 2016)

The Nile UK Shop (55380)

99.4% positive Feedback

Price:

£97.73

ApproximatelyEUR 112.00

+ £13.00 postage

Estimated delivery Thu, 14 Aug - Tue, 19 Aug

Returns:

30 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

New

About this product

Product Information

Henry James's Style of Retrospect examines the last twenty-five years in the writing life of Henry James (1843-1916), one of the most important novelists of the nineteenth century. It addresses a significantly under-appreciated dimension of James's late-life output: not his fiction, but rather the substantial body of retrospective and commemorative non-fiction (the 'late personal writings' of the title) which he began to produce in the 1890s, and which came to assume a leading role in the last phase of his career. It addresses these works from a literary-critical viewpoint, analysing the way James's style changed in response to the conditions imposed on him--but also the opportunities revealed to him--by the project of writing about the real past; the book's main contribution is to develop a cumulative analysis of his style in the period 1890DS 1915. It also has a biographical aspect, however, and tells a story of his professional and emotional life in these years that particularly emphasises his investment in historical and personal continuity, his sense of the duties of commemoration, and his interest in the experiences of ageing and remembering.