Abstract

Tóibín reviews Sheldon Novick's Henry James: The Mature Master. Tóibín sees Novick as concerned to re-interpret James as a less detached and less unhappy figure, less passive, less fearful and haunted than previous critical Henry Jameses. Novick's book seeks to interpret the Master as less long-suffering and much stronger and happier than we might previously have imagined.

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