Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siècle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central as

Writer Henry James (1843-1916) was born in America but preferred to live in Europe; he finally become a British subject near the end of his life. His status as

The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the hum

Against a background of Continental literary movements, Auchard explores the structures of silence in the novels and tales of Henry James. He develops their dyn