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Reflective Biography
- The Henry James Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2009
- pp. 266-271
- 10.1353/hjr.0.0058
- Review
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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.