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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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It was the man who had been everything, and yet this person was nothing.
评分FINALLY... Onto the next one or I really can't watch the next episode= =
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re-reading a classic that I read in high school, in part to contrast the difference in my reactions between the two readings. I became much more sympathetic to the daughter figure this time and the sarcasm of the doctor is a lot more biting and cold. Also tried to appreciate why James wanted to dedicate an entire novel to a topic so mundane.
评分Poor Catherine, false Morris, smart Dr Sloper
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