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The following items by and about Henry James were gathered by
Casey Abell, some of them from "Google's Cache." The comments are by Casey
Abell. The first thirteen items were added to this page on May 4, 2001.
about The American - Rather strained apology for the crazy melodrama in The American.
It's post-modernism before post-modernism was cool?
Christina Light's dog - Literature from the poodle angle. The James, Henry entry offers much
mirth - sometimes but not always intentional - on Christina Light's
pampered doggie. One terrible howler asserts that James was not a dog
person. In fact, HJ was the proud and affectionate owner of several
canines. And anybody who thinks Christina is not credible has a soul
dead to the charms of literary art. The poodle-critic badly
misinterprets James' preface to Roderick Hudson. HJ didn't think
Christina herself was not credible; he just thought that Roderick fell
to pieces too fast under her influence. More than a few critics have
disagreed even with that assessment.
The Turn of the Screw - Under a mile-thick layer of jargon, this is a rather routine denunciation
of the governess as sexually scrambled. Edmund Wilson did this seventy
years ago, and he wrote in English.
The Portrait of a Lady - This guy identifies with Ralph Touchett. I identified with Hyacinth
Robinson, so I can sympathize. Better read it before NASDAQ delists
Salon.com. [Link no longer works. If you know the URL please send it to hathawar@newpaltz.edu.]
A spirited defense of The Other House. - For a long time it seemed that
Jacques Barzun was the only critic who liked this melodramatic scenario-
turned-novel (which eventually turned back into a play). But other fans
are now being heard from.
Teacher's college meets Isabel Archer. - Educational theory is not known for
its freedom from jargon, and this article suffers from a severe case of
the polysyllabics. But it's an offbeat way of approaching The Portrait.
[Link no longer works. If you know the URL please send it to hathawar@newpaltz.edu.]
Interesting interview of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the screenwriter for the
movie version of The Golden Bowl. - Noted HJ scholar Philip Horne questions
intelligently.
Henry
James on "Paris, Christmas, 1876" - A selection by James himself, which
seems to come from the New York Tribune articles. Interesting contrast of
James's attitudes towards France and Germany, phrased so subtly that you
don't notice the harshness of the anti-German digs.
Offbeat
lesson on how to get the MTV generation interested in Daisy Miller and The
Beast in the Jungle. - Maybe a little too specialized, but I got a kick
out of it.
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