AGES ERA PERIOD
20TH CENTURY
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novels
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plays
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the English
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Detailed explanation-1: -The American writer Henry James once notoriously referred to nineteenth-century novels as “large, loose, baggy monsters.” He had particularly in mind the lengthy, unwieldy, yet strangely fascinating works of the Russian writers Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy.
Detailed explanation-2: -His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in clash with the corruption and wisdom of the Old, as illustrated in such works as Daisy Miller (1879), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), and The Ambassadors (1903).
Detailed explanation-3: -"A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression.” 6. James argues for complete freedom in terms of subject matter, form, style, etc.
Detailed explanation-4: -The third period of James’s career reached its most significant achievement in three novels published just around the start of the 20th century: The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904).
Detailed explanation-5: -The Portrait of a Lady was by far the most readable and engaging of his novels, and Isabel Archer remains one of his most sympathetic characters-despite the famously unsatisfactory ending.