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    ‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

    Published 2013-09-01
    “…Henry James travelled extensively in France, lived there for months at a time, and was personally acquainted with many leading French writers; he loved and admired the French novel, the French theatre, and the French critical faculty, not to mention ‘the genius of the French language’. …”
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    Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect by Lapka Olha

    Published 2022-12-01
    “…In particular, it dwells upon the representation of the Universal Emotion by the sub-classes of speech acts on the material of Henry James’s Washington Square. For this purpose, a structural-semantic analysis, a speech acts analysis, an intentional analysis, and a statistical analysis were used in the research. …”
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    Sublime Gaps by Antoine Dechêne

    Published 2018-07-01
    “…Including close readings of Henry James’s “The Figure in the Carpet” (1896) and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy (1951), this essay proceeds to show that the “metaphysical” character of these texts lies predominantly in their lack of faith in language as a reliable tool to convey the multiple and shifting identities of the unsuccessful sleuth confronted with the meaninglessness of his investigation.…”
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    Voir l’espace et dire le temps : le grand écart du discours esthétique victorien by Laurent Bury

    Published 2011-12-01
    “…Victorian painting was characterized by its narrativity, which attracted the public’s enthusiasm, but also the critics’ wrath or praise. While Henry James was offended by the “historicizing” reading of art works, John Ruskin usually wanted to find what came before and after the scene represented by the artist. …”
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    Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

    Published 2009-01-01
    “…The connection between his essay “Sur le milieu intérieur chez Flaubert”, written in 1921, and extracts from his Journal, from 1923 to 1937, the comparisons with Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, and Henry James that run through the writings of Du Bos, allow us to follow what he terms “the spiritual experience” of a materiality encompassed in the conquest of the triple demand of the Beautiful, the Living, the Truth. …”
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    Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

    Published 2016-11-01
    “…This essay considers the original Collier’s Weekly serialization of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) from a materialist and sociological perspective. …”
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    Transforming the Art of Fiction: Walter Besant, Professional Service and the Society of Authors by Richard Salmon

    Published 2019-06-01
    “…Secondly, the essay explores the Society’s professional service in relation to the emerging genre of the literary manual—or ‘how to’ guide to professional authorship—, a connection which in 1884, the year of its official foundation, sparked a memorable debate on the ‘art of fiction’ between Besant and his fellow novelist, Henry James. In what ways was this well-known late-Victorian debate on the aesthetic and moral dimensions of the novel shaped by the formation of collective professional identities for authors?…”
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    Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch by Hannah Hunt

    Published 2012-06-01
    “…Both Henry James and George Eliot make graphic use of realistic locations within their novels. …”
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