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Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell. Professor of English Literature. University of Keele 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 1870s, 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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感觉是暗黑版的半生缘,Henry James有一种把狗血故事包装高级的魔力,明明是一个猎金男倒贴追富家女的故事,他却讲得有层次有深度,小说里依稀看得到贵妇画像和鸽翼的影子:那些欲说还休的感情,那些朦胧暧昧的状态。James的小说总是提出问题,等待读者去解决,所有的答案既在小说里也不在小说里,如人饮水,冷暖自知。
评分每个人为了达到自己的目的都不说真话。只有catherine是唯一说真话的人。你以为的真相,真的是真相吗?
评分副标题:如何在英语语境下表达-->“你冷酷,你无情,你无理取闹。”“你才冷酷!你才无情!你才无理取闹!”
评分一点都不像James,反而有些地方有简奥斯丁的感觉,不过结尾处还是没有流俗,天真少女与渣男的情感纠葛,最后也抵不过岁月流逝,再多心碎忧伤执念,也总有放得下那一天。喜欢里面对一百多年前纽约城的描写。
评分drama 162'
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