Washington Square

Washington Square

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Book Summary

Washington Square marks the culmination of James’s apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870’s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel’s action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine’s suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.

 

Language: English
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Tor Fantasy (2001)
ISBN-10: 9781840224276
ISBN-13: 9781840224276
Genre: Classics
Size: 10.4 cm x 16.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 40 grams
Condition: New

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Book Summary

Washington Square marks the culmination of James’s apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870’s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel’s action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine’s suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.

 

Language: English
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Tor Fantasy (2001)
ISBN-10: 9781840224276
ISBN-13: 9781840224276
Genre: Classics
Size: 10.4 cm x 16.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 40 grams
Condition: New

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