Henry James, The American Scene

Leonardo Buonomo (Universita degli studi di Trieste)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1907

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Prose Fiction Narrative

Resources

After completing The Golden Bowl, the third and final novel of what came to be known as his “major phase”, Henry James sailed for the United States, where he arrived at the end of August, 1904. It was his first trip to his native country in twenty years. He was now sixty-one. In the course of his American sojourn James explored at length the city of his birth, New York–now the second-largest city in the world– revisited New England, went to Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. (where he met President Theodore Roosevelt), and then travelled to Richmond, Charleston, Jacksonville, Palm Beach, and St. Augustine. In March 1905, he embarked on a lecture tour that took him to St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Los Angeles. …

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Citation: Buonomo, Leonardo. "The American Scene". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 November 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1589, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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