Henry James: Collected Travel Writings (two volumes.
In these essays on travels in Italy written from 1872 to 1909, Henry James explores art and religion, political shifts and cultural revolutions, and the nature of travel itself.
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Drawing on the Master’s novels, essays, reviews, plays, criticism, and travelogues, The Daily Henry James offers a series of impressions to carry us through the year. From the deepest longings of Isabel Archer to James’s insights in The Art of Fiction, longer seasonal quotes introduce each month, while concise bits of wisdom and whimsy mark each day.
Henry James was born in New York in 1843. His father, Henry James, Sr., had inherited a considerable sum of money and spent his time in leisured pursuit of theology and philosophy. The father often wrote essays and treatises on aspects of religion and philosophy and developed a certain degree of mysticism.
Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death.
The essays in this collection were commissioned for the book and thus appear in print here for the first time. This book is, to my knowledge, the only collection of essays examining representations of gender and sexuality in James's writing that does not have an a priori premise about how James lived and how his life may be read into his works.
My first foray into the writing of Henry James. I wanted to start with this book (or rather, this book of collected essays), because I wanted to get a feel for his writing style and also because I love travel essays and these were exquisite.