Henry James and His Prose

During last days of American Civil War to the middle of First World War, Henry James created a great work of fiction that made his status in literary circles equivalent to the contemporary great stalwarts –George Eliot, Turgenev, Flaubert and Many others. He refashioned novel from early undisciplined and relaxed form to a complex work of art and gave most of the terminology used in criticism. In addition to fiction and novel writing, he also excelled in the field of literary criticism. He created twenty novels and one hundred twelve tales during five decades of his literary production. Present book is an endevour towards critical evaluation of his prose writing. Various features, characteristics, styles, forms, metaphors and phrases he used are examined in detail. “Henry James and His Prose” will be of great use to teachers, students, scholars, language-consultants and general readers.