THE IMAGE OF FRANCE IN HENRY JAMES’S INTERNATIONAL NOVELS
THE IMAGE OF FRANCE IN HENRY JAMES’S INTERNATIONAL NOVELS
Author(s): Diana-Gabriela LupuSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: aristocracy; corruption; France; history; Old World; tradition
Summary/Abstract: In his international novels, Henry James builds the image of France through the eyes of the American characters that travel in this country. For the innocent Americans, France is an invented landscape, an imagined standard of civilization and historical tradition, but also a land of corruption, hypocrisy and cynicism.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 185-193
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English