Article
Review [of Peter Rawlings' Henry James and the Abuse of the Past]
The Henry James Review
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
10-1-2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Original Item ID
DOI: 10.1353/hjr.0.0059
Disciplines
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).
Citation Information
Sarah Wadsworth. "Review [of Peter Rawlings' Henry James and the Abuse of the Past]" The Henry James Review (2009) ISSN: 0273-0340 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sarah_wadsworth/8/
Published version. The Henry James Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall 2009): 304-307. DOI. © 2009 Johns Hopkins University Press. Used with permission.