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From Grand Tour to a Space of Detour: Henry James's Europe
- The Henry James Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2010
- pp. 46-53
- 10.1353/hjr.0.0064
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This essay looks at Henry James's late writings, produced after his 1904-1905 American tour, and emphasizes the transition from the motif of Europe as the place for a "grand tour" enriching the American innocent's experience to the representation of Europe as a detour in an essentially American trajectory. Europe thus paradoxically serves to strengthen what one might call the Jamesian myth of America as place of return and redemption.