Abstract
The production of Rebecca West’s Henry James was bound up with a turbulent period in her own life, during which she was negotiating her identity both as a writer and as an independent woman, partly in response to her long-term relationship with H. G. Wells. However, this text was much more than an apprenticeship piece. By reviewing James through the lens of a more modern sensibility, West not only affirmed that James’s fiction contained something of lasting value, she also traced a connecting thread from the aesthetic world of James’s generation to that of her own. In so doing, she identified something central to the force of fiction.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 247-255 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | The Henry James review |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |