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Book Synopsis The Bostonians- By Henry James(Annotated) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians- By Henry James(Annotated) written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886.
Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry James and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as one of his finest works, Henry James' ‘The Bostonians’ (1886) is a brilliant satire about the women’s rights movement in America. Verena Tarrant is an inspirational feminist speaker, but her two disparate cousins are at loggerheads as they seek to control her future. Boston feminist Olive Chancellor hopes to turn Verena into a famous activist, while Basil Ransom, a southern lawyer, hopes to win Verena’s heart. Fans of ́The Bostonians ́ might want to watch the movie adaptation from 1984, starring Christopher Reeve and Vanessa Redgrave. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-born British author, and one of the founders of the school of realism in fiction. His inventive use of interior monologues and unreliable narrators brought complexity and depth to his work, making him hugely popular. A prolific writer, he published numerous novels, articles, travel books, biographies and plays. Among his best-known works are ‘Daisy Miller’ (1879), ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (1881), and ‘The Bostonians’ (1886). Many of his stories have been adapted for TV and film, but it is his celebrated Gothic novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (1898), regarded as one of the greatest ghost stories ever written, that has been adapted more than any other. Most recently, the eponymous 2009 BBC TV series starring Michelle Dockery, and the Netflix series, ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ (2020). James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.
Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886.
Book Synopsis The Bostonians (annotated) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians (annotated) written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians, by American-born author Henry James, was first published as a serial in 1885-1886 and then as a full novel in 1886. Henry James wrote in the tradition of realism, a late-19th century movement that was a response to Romanticism and Transcendentalism. On the surface, The Bostonians is about the competition between a Northern feminist, Olive Chancellor, and a Southern conservative, Basil Ransom, to win the attention of a young woman named Verena Tarrant: Olive wants to enlist her in the cause, and Basil wants to make her a traditional wife. However, at its core, The Bostonians is about how post-Civil War America was torn between traditional and modern values. The novel is ambivalent about progress, showing Basil's views as old-fashioned and obsolete, and the feminists' tactics as oppressive, spiteful, and unreasonable. By exploring the inner lives of the characters, the novel comments on the effects of Reconstruction, which sought to ease the Confederate states back into the Union and to rebuild the devastated South. Neither critics nor readers received The Bostonians well, and James did not write another novel focused on political themes. This guide refers to the Penguin Classics edition edited by Richard Lansdown.Basil Ransom is a young Confederate veteran who, when his family loses their fortune after the Civil War, moves to New York City to establish a law practice. Invited to visit the Boston home of his affluent cousin Olive Chancellor, he waits in her parlor and chats with Olive's widowed sister Adeline Luna. Adeline warns Basil, a conservative who prefers passive women, that Olive is a staunch feminist.Olive and Basil go to the home of philanthropist Miss Birdseye, where they hear a speech by a young feminist named Verena Tarrant. The guests are enraptured-most of all Basil. Though he despises the subject of her speech, her beauty mesmerizes him. Olive, also moved, invites Verena to visit her at home. Basil and Verena meet once in Olive's house before Basil returns to New York; he teases her and counters her feminist beliefs.Verena, encouraged by her social-climbing mother, frequently visits Olive, and the two form a partnership to work for women's equality. Olive, who has long sought a close female friendship, greatly enjoys her intimate study time with Verena but is increasingly worried by Verena's flirtations with men. Older and stronger willed than Verena, Olive coerces Verena to promise never to marry. Enthralled with Olive and seeking to impress her, Verena declines proposals from Mr. Matthias Pardon and Mr. Henry Burrage despite secretly wishing to accept. To ensure Verena does not marry, Olive takes her to Europe.In New York, Basil lives in poverty, having failed to grow his law practice or publish his politically themed articles. Mrs. Luna, who has a growing romantic interest in him, has tried to hire him to care for her affairs and to tutor her spoiled son. However, Mrs. Luna's imprecations about Basil not responding to her letters makes him increasingly irritated. One day Mrs. Luna tells him that Verena and Olive are back in America after their European voyage. The news revives Basil's interest in Verena.When Basil finds himself in Boston for business, he avoids Olive but visits Verena at her parents' house. The two walk around Cambridge. Despite his continued derision of the feminist movement, Verena feels a connection with Basil. Though she has never kept a secret from Olive, she decides not tell Olive she has gone out with Basil.When back in New York, Basil receives an invitation to go to Mrs. Burrage's house to see Verena speak. Mrs. Luna interrogates Basil about his relationship with Verena, forcing him to hint that he saw her in Cambridge. As he watches Verena, Basil finds her beauty captivating and can almost ignore......
Book Synopsis The Bostonians (Annotated) by : Henry James James
Download or read book The Bostonians (Annotated) written by Henry James James and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886.
Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886.
Book Synopsis The Bostonians by Henry James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians by Henry James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) written by Henry James and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Bostonians’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Henry James’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of James includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Bostonians’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to James’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Book Synopsis The Bostonians by : Henry Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many of Henry James's novels, The Bostonians is set in the United States. Its female characters are involved in the reform movement that swept New England during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In the novel, James presents compelling but not sympathetic characters. A central figure in the reform movement is Olive Chancellor, a proponent of women's rights, a movement upon which her identity is based. Presumably, American educator Elizabeth Peabody was James's prototype for Olive. Olive is inspired by Miss Birdseye, an abolitionist in her eighties, and seeks to become a force in the women's reform movement. Lacking the articulateness required to be a successful spokesperson, Olive latches onto Verena Tarrant, an attractive but docile young woman who has received some public notice on account of her association with her mesmerist father's public performances. Olive liberates Verena from her squalid surroundings, bringing her to the Beacon Street house in which she lives.
Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians was first published in serialized form in The Century Magazine in 1885 and 1886. It was published in book form in London in 1886. A change from Henry James look at Europeans, the novel is a study of the American scene. James had high hopes for its success and was very disappointed with its slow sales. Critics feel it lakes a sympathetic character and that the descriptions of New England life lack spark. Chapters with no dialogue at all test the most diligent of Henry James aficionados. The Bostonians is different from most of James books due to its strong political, rather than social, theme.
Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics.
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Book Synopsis The Bostonians Henry James by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians Henry James written by Henry James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BOSTONIANS by Henry James 1843-1916 Large Print
Book Synopsis The Bostonians (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians was first published in serialized form in The Century Magazine in 1885 and 1886. It was published in book form in London in 1886. A change from Henry James look at Europeans, the novel is a study of the American scene. James had high hopes for its success and was very disappointed with its slow sales. Critics feel it lakes a sympathetic character and that the descriptions of New England life lack spark. Chapters with no dialogue at all test the most diligent of Henry James aficionados. The Bostonians is different from most of James books due to its strong political, rather than social, theme.
Book Synopsis Meaning in Henry James by : Millicent Bell
Download or read book Meaning in Henry James written by Millicent Bell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James rebelled intuitively against the tyranny and banality of plots. Believing a life to have many potential paths and a self to hold many destinies, he hung the evocative shadow of "what might have been" over much of what he wrote. Yet James also realized that no life can be lived--and no story written--except by submission to some outcome. The limiting conventions of society and literature are, he found, almost inescapable. In a major, comprehensive new study of James's work, Millicent Bell explores this oscillation between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, and uncertainty and meaning. In the process Bell provides fresh insight into how we read and interpret fiction. Bell demonstrates how James's texts steadfastly, almost perversely at times, preserve a sense of alternative possibilities. James involves his characters in overlapping scenarios drawn from folklore, drama, literature, or naturalist formula. The reader engages, with the hero or heroine, in imagining many plots other than the one that finally-and often ambiguously--emerges. The story arouses expectations, proposes courses, then cancels them successively. In complicity with author and character, the reader crafts the story in an adventure of constant revision and anticipation. Literary meaning becomes an experience as well as a goal. In the end, revelations and resolutions, even if unclear or partial, assume an altered significance in light of the earlier imaginings. Not surprisingly, James's deepest sympathies lay with those characters who resisted entrapment by cultural expectations--his idealistic free spirits like Isabel, his marriage renouncers like Fleda Vetch, his largely silent and detached witnesses to life like Strether and the generous Maisie. They are frequently the victims of callous manipulators who box them into oppressive roles or who literally "plot against" them. By looking closely at James's critiques of clever" categorical mind and at his loving and complex portraits of characters of unfulfilled potentiality, Bell celebrates the paradoxes of James's story-denying fiction. In extended analyses of Daisy Miller," Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, "The Aspern Papers," The Spoils of Poynton, "The Turn of the Screw," What Maisie Knew, "The Beast in the Jungle," "The Jolly Corner," The Wings of the Dove, and The Ambassadors, Bell relates James's work to influential movements of the day, notably impressionism and naturalism. She examines the influence of Hawthorne, Emerson, Flaubert, Balzac, and Zola on James at various periods throughout his career. Drawing on rich traditions of criticism and on stimulating recent theories, Bell forges a critical approach both accessible and profound for this elegant reading of one of the greatest writers of this or any time. It is a book that will be of high value and interest to the advanced scholar--marking out new ground in its methodology and offering innovative interpretations of James's fiction. At the same time, it will appeal equally to the general, reader, who will find his reading of James enriched by Bell's lucid and impassioned discussion.
Book Synopsis The Bostonians Vol. I by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians Vol. I written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians Vol. I From Henry James
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Book Synopsis The Bostonians Vol. I by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians Vol. I written by Henry James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Henry James's "The Bostonians" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Henry James's "The Bostonians" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Henry James's "The Bostonians," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
