Peter Brooks, Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
James came to the United States in search of the romantic that once drove him to Europe but no longer resided there for him. After an exile of 25 years, he was back in an America on the brink of an economic boom. In Henry James Comes Home, Brooks charts James’s journey as a writer coming to terms w...
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European journal of American studies
2026
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | James came to the United States in search of the romantic that once drove him to Europe but no longer resided there for him. After an exile of 25 years, he was back in an America on the brink of an economic boom. In Henry James Comes Home, Brooks charts James’s journey as a writer coming to terms with the United States and the American democracy. While at Lamb House, his home in Rye, Sussex, James wrote in a letter to Grace Norton that “The days depart and pass, laden somehow like procession... |
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