Author: Robert Emmet Long

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

ISBN: 9780822976240

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 216

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The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates James’ transformation of Hawthorne’s romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of James’ early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.