Review [of Peter Rawlings' Henry James and the Abuse of the Past]

Authors

Sarah Wadsworth, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

4 p.

Publication Date

Fall 2009

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Source Publication

The Henry James Review

Source ISSN

0273-0340

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1353/hjr.0.0059; Shelves: PS2124 .H46 Storage S

Abstract

[...] the "abuse of the past" becomes in James's hands "an art of fiction and the framework of an autobiography" (67-68). According to Rawlings, "Henry James's late fiction specializes in constructing, within the volatile framework of philosophies of time then current, decadent mutations of America's vanishing dreamers, characters arrested . . . by the forlorn realization that 'we shall never be again as we were!'" (141-42).

Comments

Published version. The Henry James Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall 2009): 304-307. DOI. © 2009 Johns Hopkins University Press. Used with permission.

Recommended Citation

Wadsworth, Sarah, "Review [of Peter Rawlings' Henry James and the Abuse of the Past]" (2009). English Faculty Research and Publications. 175.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_fac/175