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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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齣乎意料地好讀。亨利詹姆斯作品，經典推薦。
评分It was the man who had been everything, and yet this person was nothing.
评分One is by all means stupid, the other is by no means a gentleman. One has a sorry looking, the other a mean character, both deserve the biterness of life.
评分Poor Catherine, false Morris, smart Dr Sloper
评分要不是看到作者名字，還真以為是奧斯汀小姐的大作啊~
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