Henry James: Selected Literary Criticism

by Morris Shapira (Editor), F. R. Leavis (Preface by)

Overview

This 1981 book is a reissue of a selection of Henry James' literary criticism by Heinemann Educational Books in 1963. Few artists of any kind have applied to their work the degree of critical intelligence that James devoted to his, and the perfectionist care that he devoted to the practise of his own craft made him a great critic of the art of fiction in general. The essays included in this volume cover the entire span of James' career, from the essay on Whitman (1965) to The New Novel (1914). Of particular interest are the essays dealing with the great fiction writers of the nineteenth century: Dickens, George Eliot, Maupassant, Flaubert, Balzac and Zola. The book also includes by way of a preface F. R. Leavis' essay on James as a critic, in which Leavis analyses what he sees as the strengths of James' work in this field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521283656
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/30/1981
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	374
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

1. Mr Walt Whitman, 1865; 2. Our Mutual Friend, 1865; 3. The Belton Estate, 1866; 4. Taine's English Literature, 1876; 5. Swinburne's Essays, 1875; 6. Charles Baudelaire, 1876; 7. Daniel Deronda: A Conversation, 1876; 8. The Art of Fiction, 1884; 9. Emerson, 1887; 10. Guy de Maupassant, 1888; 11. The Journal of the Brothers de Goncourt, 1888; 12. Criticism, 1891; 13. Gustave Flaubert, 1893; 14. George Sand, 1897; 15. London Notes (The Diamond Jubilee), 1897; 16. London Notes (The Classical Spirit), 1897; 17. The Future of the Novel, 1899; 18. Honoré de Balzac, 1902; 19. Gustave Flaubert, 1893; 20. Emile Zola, 1903; 21. Gabriele D'Annunzio, 1904; 22. The Tempest, 1907; 23. The New Novel, 1914; Index.