Henry James’s Dramas of Cultivation: Liberalism and Democracy in The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima

This article identifies an overlooked discursive context for Henry James's novels of 1886. Liberal political thought pervaded both James’s transatlantic intellectual milieu and the pages of the periodicals in which he published his work; the novels, I argue, engage critically with the democrati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coit, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2015