The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work have become part of the fabric of novel criticism today, influencing theorists, authors and readers alike.  Emphasizing the crucial relationship between the works of these three critics, Peter Rawlings explores their understanding of the novel form, and investigates their ideas on:  realism and representation authors and narration point of view and centres of consciousness readers, reading and interpretation moral intelligence.  Rawlings demonstrates the importance of James, Trilling and Booth for contemporary literary theory and clearly introduces critical concepts that underlie any study of narrative. American Theorists of the Novel is invaluable reading for anyone with an interest in American critical theory, or the genre of the novel.

American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Literature & Fiction

Rawlings, Peter

History & Criticism

Routledge

The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work have become part of the fabric of novel criticism today, influencing theorists, authors and readers alike. Emphasizing the crucial relationship between the works of these three critics, Peter Rawlings explores their understanding of the novel form, and investigates their ideas on: <ul>
<li>realism and representation</li> <li>authors and narration</li> <li>point of view and centres of consciousness</li> <li>readers, reading and interpretation</li> <li>moral intelligence.</li>
</ul> Rawlings demonstrates the importance of James, Trilling and Booth for contemporary literary theory and clearly introduces critical concepts that underlie any study of narrative. American Theorists of the Novel is invaluable reading for anyone with an interest in American critical theory, or the genre of the novel.

Henry James Shorter Masterpieces Volume 1

Harvest House

American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 2

A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 3

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1

A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.

Positioning Henry James within his transatlantic and pan-European contexts, Peter Rawlings relocates James and the New Criticism's ideology of organicism in biology rather than in aesthetics. Rawlings argues that the novel as a genre anchored in the representation of character emerged from philosophical and scientific thinking about consciousness and experience that begins in the late seventeenth century and encompasses two hundred years of traffic between Europe and America. His ambitious study explores the significance of American thinkers and their European antecedents, from Jonathan Edwards to Josiah Royce, aligning James's 1884 essay "The Art of Fiction" with contemporary thinking on consciousness and its dense, ramifying aetiology. By this point, Herbert Spencer had extended Darwin's evolutionary thinking into the social domain, disrupting ideas about consciousness as allied with the soul even as the fin-de-siècle enthusiasm for panpsychism and the paranormal made a last stand against the New Sciences. A major contention of Rawlings's book is that Henry James should not and cannot be isolated from the urgent need to rethink what seminal critics such as Ian Watt and Marthe Robert have said about the procession of the novel from prose fiction. James's canonization by the New Critics motivates Rawlings's reexamination of Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Susan Warner, and George Eliot, among others, in the context of the vast range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and North American philosophical, physiological, and biological discourses on which James drew in his theory and practice as a novelist.

Henry James, Consciousness, and the Evolution of the Novel

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American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Henry James Shorter Masterpieces Volume 1

American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 2

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 3

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 2

Henry James, Consciousness, and the Evolution of the Novel