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Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Washington Square
• Author: Henry James
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781840224276
• ISBN: 1840224274
• ID: 04250180
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Weight: 124 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 127 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. August 2001

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