Literary criticism. Volume I. Essays on Literature. American writ

The present volume gathers Jame´s responses to American and English writers, along with his most important theoretical essays, among them "The art of fiction" and " The Future of the Novel". The scores of American writers discussed include Ralph Waldo, Emerson, Walt Whitman, Edgar alan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a book-length study of Nathaniel Hawthorne. To these are joined penetrating assesments of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, and nearly every other important British writer of the period.