TY - BOOK ID - 1090242 TI - New essays on The American PY - 1987 VL - *7 SN - 0521307309 0521314496 0511624441 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - James, Henry KW - James, Henry, KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1090242 AB - The American (1877) was written the very year Henry James committed himself to making his way as an author outside America. It thus formed part of the brief that James had to draw up both for and against his countrymen. This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects of the novel: the French literary influences on James as he gravitated between the genres of the romantic and the realistic novel; the many-layered French political scene that he incorporated into the novel; the complex gender roles of his characters; and the pervasive effect of capitalism upon them. ER -