Henry James

by Stuart Hutchinson

Published 25 November 1982
In a penetrating examination of Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, Hutchinson shows that, like the major American authors who preceded him, Henry James was necessarily a modernist in the sense of being a fabricator rather than an imitator of reality.