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The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates JamesÆ transformation of HawthorneÆs romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of JamesÆ early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.

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The definitive, long-awaited discussion of the literary relationship between James and his most important American influence. --American Literary Scholarship It fills a gap in accounts of how James started his career as a writer. . . . Valuable study. --Times Literary Supplement The first sustained analysis of Hawthorne's influence upon James's fiction over an extended period. . . . Long offers new insights, showing himself particularly adept in tracing literary associations. --Nineteenth-Century Fiction The definitive, long-awaited discussion of the literary relationship between James and his most important American influence. American Literary Scholarship It fills a gap in accounts of how James started his career as a writer. . . . Valuable study. Times Literary Supplement The first sustained analysis of Hawthorne s influence upon James s fiction over an extended period. . . . Long offers new insights, showing himself particularly adept in tracing literary associations. Nineteenth-Century Fiction

It fills a gap in accounts of how James started his career as a writer. . . . Valuable study. --Times Literary Supplement The first sustained analysis of Hawthorne's influence upon James's fiction over an extended period. . . . Long offers new insights, showing himself particularly adept in tracing literary associations. --Nineteenth-Century Fiction The definitive, long-awaited discussion of the literary relationship between James and his most important American influence. --American Literary Scholarship

The first sustained analysis of Hawthorne's influence upon James's fiction over an extended period. . . . Long offers new insights, showing himself particularly adept in tracing literary associations. --Nineteenth-Century Fiction The definitive, long-awaited discussion of the literary relationship between James and his most important American influence. --American Literary Scholarship It fills a gap in accounts of how James started his career as a writer. . . . Valuable study. --Times Literary Supplement

"""It fills a gap in accounts of how James started his career as a writer. . . . Valuable study."" --Times Literary Supplement ""The definitive, long-awaited discussion of the literary relationship between James and his most important American influence."" --American Literary Scholarship ""The first sustained analysis of Hawthorne's influence upon James's fiction over an extended period. . . . Long offers new insights, showing himself particularly adept in tracing literary associations."" --Nineteenth-Century Fiction"

The definitive, long-awaited discussion of the literary relationship between James and his most important American influence. --American Literary Scholarship It fills a gap in accounts of how James started his career as a writer. . . . Valuable study. --Times Literary Supplement The first sustained analysis of Hawthorne's influence upon James's fiction over an extended period. . . . Long offers new insights, showing himself particularly adept in tracing literary associations. --Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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Robert Emmet Long is a scholar whose articles and reviews have appeared in many national publications.

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