In:
University of Toronto Quarterly, University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress), Vol. 2, No. 4 ( 1933-07-01), p. 520-532
Kurzfassung:
American criticism, always tending to be self-conscious, has latterly been pre-occupied with the problem of Henry James's expatriation. The novelist, it will be remembered, left the United States in 1883 and did not return for twenty years; and then only for a short visit. Was this self-imposed exile-and we must be careful in using the word, for James surely, never thought himself an exile-premeditated, or was it forced upon him by a hostile American environment? Was it the exile of a Turgeniev who followed a woman into Europe, or the exile of a Byron who fled England's shores on his extraordinary pilgrimage? In truth it was neither. James did not leave America because he could not create there: he went to Europe because he could create in Europe. And this is very important.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0042-0247
,
1712-5278
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Publikationsdatum:
1933
ZDB Id:
2067134-9
ZDB Id:
2159811-3
SSG:
25
