Kirjahaku

The American Scene considers major texts of nineteenth century American literature: The Leatherstocking Tales, Poe's fiction, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Leaves of Grass, Dickinson's poetry, Huckleberry Finn, James's The American Scene. It sees these works as attempts to articulate relationships between the self and the New World. The indeterminacy of the relationships is expressed in the formal instability of the works themselves. In these respects, nineteenth century American literature is shown to offer a striking contrast to comparable English literature.

In a penetrating examination of Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, Hutchinson shows that, like the major American authors who preceded him, Henry James was necessarily a modernist in the sense of being a fabricator rather than an imitator of reality.

Crime thriller set in the UK in 2003