Portrait of A Novel
Page 47
Westminster Review, 58
Wharton, Edith, 36, 79, 91, 139, 149, 206–7, 241, 307, 330
sales of, xii
Whistler, James McNeill, 146
Whitchurch-on-Thames, 48
White Mountains, 22, 308, 321
Whitman, Walt, 19, 323
Wilde, Oscar, 200, 279, 297
HJ’s dislike of, 85, 290
homosexuality of, 78, 83, 85, 290, 299
as playwright, 288, 290, 291–92
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Prussia, 128
Wilson, Woodrow, 323
Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame), 49
Wisconsin, 27, 32
Wister, Owen, 148
Wister, Sara Butler, 148
Wolseley, Sir Garnet, 61
women, condition of, 72, 253
Woolf, Virginia, xvi, 88, 194, 231, 235–36, 249, 253, 302, 321
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 94, 128–32, 174–88, 315
death of, 182–86, 266
depression of, 180, 182–83, 186
on The Portrait of a Lady, 175, 243, 284
Wordsworth, William, 74, 153
World War I, 322–24
Zhukovsky, Paul, 44, 78, 91–96, 101, 130, 131, 198
Zola, Émile, 204, 246, 250–53, 265, 271
at Gustave Flaubert’s cénacle, 39, 96, 197, 199
HJ’s opinion of, 90, 198, 201–3
naturalism and, 26, 200, 249, 283
translation of, 203, 304
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. His books include After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie; The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany; and, as editor, the Norton Critical Edition of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with the Balakian award of the National Book Critics Circle for his work as a reviewer. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.
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Gorra, Michael Edward.
Portrait of a novel : Henry James and the making
of an American masterpiece / Michael Gorra. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-87140-408-4 (hardcover)
1. James, Henry, 1843–1916. 2. Authors, American—19th century—Biography. 3. Authors, American—20th century—Biography.
4. James, Henry, 1843–1916. Portrait of a lady. 5. American fiction—European influences. I. Title. II. Title: Henry James
and the making of an American masterpiece.
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