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As Henry James, in his work on the New York Edition, once again looked over the manuscript of Roderick Hudson after an interval of many years, he began vividly to recall the emotions that had attended its composition. Though he was now the acknowledged master of both novel and short story, James could not but acknowledge the mixture of trepidation and daring with which he had originally embarked on this his first considerable enterprise and, retrospectively, the first that he was prepared to recognise as his own. This tale of a young American artist was a reckless and presumptuous, if necessary, venture in which the lineaments of the brash and opinionated hero offered a definite clue to the many and various moods of his creator also.
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NOTE
For the more frequently cited of James’s writings, page reference are given in the text. The editions used are as follows: What Maisie Knew, New York Edition (London, 1908); Roderick Hudson, Intro. L. Edel (New York, 1960); The Art of the Novel, ed. R. P. Blackmur (New York, 1962)
S. P. Rosenbaum The Ambassadors, ed. (New York, 1964)
The Portrait of a Lady, ed. R. D. Bamberg (New York, 1975)
The American, ed.J. W. Tuttleton (New York, 1978)
The Wings of the Dove, ed.J. D. Crowley and R. A. Hocks (New York, 1978)
The Golden Bowl, ed. V. Llewellyn Smith (Oxford and New York, 1983)
C. R. Anderson The Bostonians, ed. (London, 1984).
Henry James, Complete Tales, iv, ed. L. Edel (New York, 1962) p. 191.
Henry James, The Future of the Novel, ed. L. Edel (New York, 1956) p. 14.
Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, New York Edition (London, 1908) II,217-18.
Henry James, The Tragic Muse, New York Edition (London, 1908) II, 9.
Henry James, The American Essays, ed. L. Edel (New York, 1956) pp. 256-7.
Henry James, The Notebooks, ed. F. O. Matthiessen and K. B. Murdock (New York, 1961) p. 226.
Bernard Richards, ‘The Ambassadors and the Sacred Fount: The Artist Manque’, in The Air of Reality, ed. J. Goode (London, 1972) p. 220.
F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (New York, 1963) p. 161.
See Quentin Anderson, The American Henry James (London, 1958) pp. 98-123.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Works, II, ed. A. R. Ferguson, J. F. Carr and J. Slater (Cambridge, Mass., 1979) p. 94.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Lectures (New York, 1983) pp. 1123-4.
The Portable Emerson, ed. C. Bode with M. Cowley (New York, 1981) pp. 255-6.
John Bayley, The Characters of Love (London, 1960) p. 240.
Dorothea Krook, The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James (Cambridge, 1963) pp. 321-2.
Naomi Lebowitz, The Imagination of Loving (Detroit, 1965) p. 141.
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Morse, D. (1987). Henry James: Refusing the Limit. In: American Romanticism. Macmillan Studies in Romanticism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07898-1_4
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