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Henry James: A Life in Letters.

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20010101
Author:Rawlings, Peter

 
Henry James: A Life in Letters. Ed. by Philip Horne. 
Harmondsworth: Allen Lane; 
Penguin Press. 1999. xxxv+668 pp. [pound]25.

Fiction, wrote James in a letter published here for the first time, is 'the anodyne of a tolerably intense alternative or vicarious experience, a beguiling interruption to the dire familiarities of self' (p. 396). Insatiably curious about the lives of others, yet fearful about posthumous excavations of his own, Henry James was profoundly ambivalent about, not to say simply obsessed by, the whole business of life, biographical constructions of it, and ...

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