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Works of Henry James: Henry James's Morality

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:James, Henry

James, Henry
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Henry James's Morality

It is an axiom that a reader who would understand James's fiction fully
must at least consider James's morality, for, without being didactic, James
was a moralist. As we have seen from his biography, one of the reasons which
led James to be impatient with the study of the law was precisely because the
law seemed to him a blunt and imprecise instrument for making moral
distinctions and regulating the behavior of men. And it could never show the
damage, much less punish it, which the kind of infighting chronicled in
Washington Square ...

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