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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his Literary Circle, 1895-1915 (1988)di Miranda Seymour
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Miranda Seymour's wonderful account of Henry James and his literary circle over the last twenty years of his life is graceful, affectionate and penetrating. One does have to begin, of course, with an appreciation of the pleasures and stimulations of reading Henry James and, in particular, the later novels. I suspect that some of the lower star ratings for 'Henry James and his Literary Circle' were conferred by readers who simply don't enjoy Henry James. He was the centre of what Seymour calls, in her sub-title, a 'ring of conspirators'. Over the period 1895-1915 James resided at Lamb House in Rye, on the South-East corner of England, in easy social proximity to a diversely talented group of novelists: Stephen Crane, HG Wells, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and Edith Wharton. Of these only HG Wells, commercially the most successful, was comfortably English. Crane, Conrad, Wharton and James were émigrés and Ford, whose father was German, incompletely assimilated. It was Wells who introduced the notion of a literary conspiracy among them that transformed the English novel. (To be continued) ( )
Henry James left London in 1897 to spend the last two decades of his life in East Sussex where his neighbours included H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad. In this widely admired study Miranda Seymour aims to cut through 'the mass of evasions . . . and misrepresentations' about their relationships with James. She finds that James was cruelly patronizing to protégé Wells and to Conrad; that he was annoyed by Ford, an incorrigible romancer; that he envied his rich friend Edith Wharton for her wide readership; that he snubbed Cora Taylor, Crane's lover, after she fled America when her railway-conductor husband was found guilty of murder. Seymour, a descendant of James's close friend, the novelist Howard Sturgis, records how James's critiques of fellow writers often amounted to annihilation and she chronicles his infatuations with handsome young men, including sculptor Hendrik Andersen and poet Rupert Brooke. In this erudite and insightful book that draws on letters and published works, Miranda Seymour vividly recreates the uneasy alliance of writers and personalities in the 'Rye Mafia'. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.4Literature English (North America) American fiction Later 19th Century 1861-1900Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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