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*0410 $aeng
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*084  $a84.5$2ykl
*1001 $aJames, Henry,$ekirjoittaja.
*24510$aWashington Square /$cHenry James ; introduction and notes by Ian F.A. Bell.
*250  $aComplete and unabridged.
*264 1$aWare :$bWordsworth Editions Limited,$c2001.
*300  $axxi, 154 sivua ;$c20 cm
*336  $ateksti$btxt$2rdacontent
*337  $akäytettävissä ilman laitetta$bn$2rdamedia
*338  $anide$bnc$2rdacarrier
*4900 $aWordsworth classics
*504  $aIncludes bibliographical references.
*650 0$aInheritance and succession$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
*650 0$aCourtship$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
*650 0$aFathers and daughters$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
*830 0$aWordsworth classics.
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Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression. Introduction and notes by: Ian F.A. Bell Series edited by: Keith Carabine