Washington SquareHenry James

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Washington Square – Henry James

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 1870’s, 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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