The Critical Temper: Victorian literature and American literatureMartin Tucker Ungar, 1969 - American literature |
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Page 353
... James is indeed a whole course in the non - Freudian psychology of " survival , " and of triumphant ascendancy , at the cost of all truth . The great writers start first of all from self - knowledge , while James reveled in self ...
... James is indeed a whole course in the non - Freudian psychology of " survival , " and of triumphant ascendancy , at the cost of all truth . The great writers start first of all from self - knowledge , while James reveled in self ...
Page 357
... James was with that character ; and he kept a familiar touch of the fabulous in his narratives . " I had been plotting arch - romance without knowing it , " he said of The American ; and by romance he meant what Hawthorne had meant ...
... James was with that character ; and he kept a familiar touch of the fabulous in his narratives . " I had been plotting arch - romance without knowing it , " he said of The American ; and by romance he meant what Hawthorne had meant ...
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... James took care to identify the social , domestic , and economic factors which led to Isabel Archer's entrance into the damaging world . In The Wings of the Dove , realities lie in the back- ground ; in the foreground , James enacts a ...
... James took care to identify the social , domestic , and economic factors which led to Isabel Archer's entrance into the damaging world . In The Wings of the Dove , realities lie in the back- ground ; in the foreground , James enacts a ...
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Matthew Arnold 18221888 | 3 |
Walter Bagehot 18261877 | 16 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 18061861 | 30 |
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