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The guiding principle of this study is the belief that the style reflects the man. Each of the chapters following will deal with a specific feature of Henry James’s style, and in each case the contention is that the nature of the stylistic device reveals an essential aspect of James’s fictional world.
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Quotes, with page numbers given within parentheses in the text, from Henry James, The Golden Bowl, in Leon Edel (ed.), The Bodley Head Henry James, vol. ix, The Golden Bowl (London: Bodley Head, 1971).
Leon Edel and Gordon N. Ray (eds), Henry James and H.G. Wells: A Record of their Friendship, their Debate on the Art of Fiction, and their Quarrel (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958) p. 267.
E. g. the unsigned review in Saturday, March 1905, xcix, 383–4; reprinted in Roger Gard (ed.), Henry James: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968) pp. 381–4, p. 381 ‘intensity’, p. 383 ‘Hence it is that one has come to measure Mr. James’s success by the amount and intensity of dramatic action which a theme will yield him’.
Philip Grover, Henry James and the French Novel: A Study in Inspiration (London: Paul Elek, 1973) p. 176.
Wilson’s article ‘The Ambiguity of Henry James’ was first published in Hound and Horn 7 (April—June 1934) 385–406. A revised version Gerald Willen (ed.), A Casebook on Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw’ 2nd edn (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1969) together with the story, some critical articles and other relevant material.
Jean Frantz Blackall, Jamesian Ambiguity and The Sacred Fount (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1965).
Charles Thomas Samuels, The Ambiguity of Henry James (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971).
Shlomith Rimmon, The Concept of Ambiguity — the Example of James (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1978).
For a list of criticism on The Golden Bowl see Beatrice Ricks (comp.), Henry James: A Bibliography of Secondary Works The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, no. 24 (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1975) pp. 70–8.
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Norrman, R. (1982). Introduction. In: The Insecure World of Henry James’s Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16824-8_1
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