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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 1870s, 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.
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三星半。其實換到現在就是豆瓣直播貼之類,苦情女成為金不換女戰士。
评分It was the man who had been everything, and yet this person was nothing.
评分一點都不像James,反而有些地方有簡奧斯丁的感覺,不過結尾處還是沒有流俗,天真少女與渣男的情感糾葛,最後也抵不過歲月流逝,再多心碎憂傷執念,也總有放得下那一天。喜歡裏麵對一百多年前紐約城的描寫。
评分感覺是暗黑版的半生緣,Henry James有一種把狗血故事包裝高級的魔力,明明是一個獵金男倒貼追富傢女的故事,他卻講得有層次有深度,小說裏依稀看得到貴婦畫像和鴿翼的影子:那些欲說還休的感情,那些朦朧曖昧的狀態。James的小說總是提齣問題,等待讀者去解決,所有的答案既在小說裏也不在小說裏,如人飲水,冷暖自知。
评分一點都不像James,反而有些地方有簡奧斯丁的感覺,不過結尾處還是沒有流俗,天真少女與渣男的情感糾葛,最後也抵不過歲月流逝,再多心碎憂傷執念,也總有放得下那一天。喜歡裏麵對一百多年前紐約城的描寫。
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