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... James's Partial Portraits and Notes on Novelists ; and the corres- pondence on fiction between James and Stevenson edited by Janet Adam Smith under the title Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson . Then the books on what may be called ...
... James's Partial Portraits and Notes on Novelists ; and the corres- pondence on fiction between James and Stevenson edited by Janet Adam Smith under the title Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson . Then the books on what may be called ...
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... James's especially evident here because of the range of social scene he was committed to . This quality is the charity of James's mind , his truly luminous com- passion . He weighs the worth of his characters as scrupulously as Jane ...
... James's especially evident here because of the range of social scene he was committed to . This quality is the charity of James's mind , his truly luminous com- passion . He weighs the worth of his characters as scrupulously as Jane ...
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... James called a ' fine central intelligence ' , Maisie's in What Maisie Knew , Strether's in The Ambassadors . As R. P. Blackmur has written in his introduction to his edition of James's prefaces called The Art of the Novel : The novel ...
... James called a ' fine central intelligence ' , Maisie's in What Maisie Knew , Strether's in The Ambassadors . As R. P. Blackmur has written in his introduction to his edition of James's prefaces called The Art of the Novel : The novel ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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