Author: Bewley, Marius
Title: The Complex Fate: Hawthorne, Henry James and Some Other American Writers
Description: New York, Gordian Press, 1967. Reprint. orig. cloth. 21x13cm, 247 pp. A facsimile reprint of the 1952 edition.. Some rubbing. Binding edges darkened. VG. ¶ With an Introduction and two Interpolations by F.R. Leavis. Contents: Hawthorne and Henry James: Hawthorne, Henry James, and the American Novel; "The Blithedale Romance" and "The Bostonians"; "The Marbe Faun" and "The Wings of the Dove"; The American Problem; Appearance and Reality in Henry James; "What Maisie Knew": A Disagreement by F. R. Leavis; Maisie, Miles and Flora, the Jamesian Innocents: A Rejoinder; Comment by F. R. Leavis; The Relation between William and Henry James: Some Aspects of Modern American Poetry; Mencken and the American Language; Kenneth Burke as Literary Critic.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Literature, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, , , , ,