The Pilgrimage of Henry James

Name: The Pilgrimage of Henry James
Author: Van Wyck Brooks

by Van Wyck Brooks

Biographical study of novelist Henry James and his complex relationship with American literary tradition

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Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks was a foundational American literary historian and critic whose multivolume Makers and Finders series chronicled American literary culture from the Revolution to the Civil War. America's Coming-of-Age was his manifesto.

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