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Revolution for the rich: James's Princess Casamassima.(Henry James)(Critical essay)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20060301
Author:Falcoff, Mark

Henry James is most often thought--quite rightly--as a novelist of manners, typically taking for his subject the clash of sensibilities between his American subjects and their European counterparts. His world--the one in which he moved personally, felt most at home, and which occupied the largest space in his work--was evidently that of the wellborn and well-traveled, the cultivated, and (to use a current pejorative) the privileged. It is impossible to imagine a fictional milieu farther removed from today's American literary concerns. Jamesland is a place where aristocrats and ...

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