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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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很多生词，看得似懂非懂。Sophie 黄小姐借我书多年，终于看完。
评分Poor Catherine, false Morris, smart Dr Sloper
评分It was the man who had been everything, and yet this person was nothing.
评分很多生词，看得似懂非懂。Sophie 黄小姐借我书多年，终于看完。
评分drama 162'
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