圖書標籤: HenryJames 小說 美國文學 美國 英文小說 英文 愛情 文學
发表于2024-08-06
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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.
It was the man who had been everything, and yet this person was nothing.
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評分每個人為瞭達到自己的目的都不說真話。隻有catherine是唯一說真話的人。你以為的真相,真的是真相嗎?
評分要不是看到作者名字,還真以為是奧斯汀小姐的大作啊~
評分re-reading a classic that I read in high school, in part to contrast the difference in my reactions between the two readings. I became much more sympathetic to the daughter figure this time and the sarcasm of the doctor is a lot more biting and cold. Also tried to appreciate why James wanted to dedicate an entire novel to a topic so mundane.
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Washington Square pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024