![]() ![]() Henry James has long been heralded as a master of transatlantic realism, a cosmopolitan observer of human nature, and a bone-dry contributor to the novel of manners – a blue-blooded chronicler of polite society’s stifled human dramas in the tradition of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Balzac, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Kipling, and de Maupassant – a thoroughly European pedigree befitting a man who left the United States in his youth and returned only twice before his death. ![]() The terror of exposure, of reality and confrontation. His fiction is impressionistic, psychological, and "courtly," but it has one pervasive emotion to it: unease - discomfort, awkwardness, and a lurking shame buried in intentional secrecy. ![]() He was not one for terror, or even horror. ![]()
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