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Revolution for the rich: James's Princess Casamassima.(Henry James)(Critical essay)

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| March 01, 2006 | Falcoff, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2006 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Henry James is most often thought--quite rightly--as a novelist of manners, typically taking for his subject the clash of sensibilities between his American subjects and their European counterparts. His world--the one in which he moved personally, felt most at home, and which occupied the largest space in his work--was evidently that of the wellborn and well-traveled, the cultivated, and (to use a current pejorative) the privileged. It is impossible to imagine a fictional milieu farther removed from today's American literary concerns. Jamesland is a place where aristocrats and heiresses, expatriate artists and poets, titled continentals and landed gentry meet and mingle in ...

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