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Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James

by Henry Seidel Canby. 322 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Henry Seidel Canby

Publisher:

   Biblo and Tannen

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1965
Subjects:   Twain, Mark,--1835-1910, James, Henry,--1843-1916
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books on: (Twain Mark 1835 1910) OR (James Henry 1843 1916)  - 8402 results

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Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James
Book by Henry Seidel Canby; Biblo and Tannen, 1965
Subjects: James, Henry--1843-1916, Twain, Mark--1835-1910
...moral scheme was as fundamental for him as it was usually unconscious. 3. HENRY JAMES CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION Henry James Junior was born April 15, 1843, at Number 5 not Number 2, as he said later , Washington Place, the second in a row between the New York University...
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Henry James: Autobiography
Book by Frederick W. Dupee, Henry James; Criterion Books, 1956
Subjects: James, Henry--1843-1916
...stricken and in darkness," he wrote to a friend in the summer of 1910, when he was sixty-seven. William James was dead; and William...no immediate family of his own to command his affections and mark the passage of time, he continued to live intensely in his own...
3.
Theatre and Friendship: Some Henry James Letters
Book by Henry James, Elizabeth Robins; G.P. Putnams Sons, 1932
Subjects: Fiction, James, Henry--1843-1916--Correspondence
...FRIENDSHIP Courtesy of Alice Boughton HENRY JAMES THEATRE AND FRIENDSHIP SOME HENRY JAMES LETTERS WITH A COMMENTARY BY ELIZABETH...My special acknowledgments are due to Henry James, Junior, for his permission to publish...
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The Nature of True Virtue: Theology, Psychology, and Politics in the Writings of Henry James, Sr., Henry James, Jr., and William James
Book by James Duban; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001
Subjects: Didactic Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Ethics In Literature, Ethics--United States, James, Henry--1811-1882, James, Henry--1811-1882--Influence, James, Henry--1843-1916--Ethics, James, William--1842-1910, James, William--1842-1910--Influence, Religious Thought--United States--19th Century, Virtue, Virtue In Literature
...Neither the newspaper column nor its vital importance for James-family studies has received attention yet from the scholarly...The newspapers linking of the socialistic theology of Henry Senior to a Puritan valuation of disinterestedness casts a more illuminating light upon the elder Henrys claim, in 1843, that Jonathan Edwards redivivus in true blue would...reconciler and critic of philosophy. The fact that the elder Henry wrote that thought on 11 May 1843, months be- fore reading a line of Swedenborgs works...the Swedish mystic. Between 1835 and 1837, the senior James would almost certainly have encountered the views of the...
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Henry James and Impressionism
Book by James J. Kirschke; Whitston, 1981
Subjects: Art And Literature--United States--History--19th Century, Impressionism, Impressionism (Art), James, Henry--1843-1916--Knowledge--Art, James, Henry--1843-1916--Literary Style
Henry James and Impressionism To Juanita Henry James and Impressionism by James J. Kirschke The Whitston...Library for extending publication rights to quote from: Henry James. Als. 28 August 1878 to W.E. Henley. I should also...
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journal articles on: (Twain Mark 1835 1910) OR (James Henry 1843 1916)  - 109 results

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Lessons of the Master: The Henry James Novel
Journal article by John Harvey; Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 37, 2007
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)--Appreciation, James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)--Criticism and interpretation, Literary characters--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Appreciation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Realism (Literature), Realism in literature
Lessons of the Master: The Henry James Novel. by John Harvey ABSTRACT...distinguished authors had, as their protagonist, Henry James; and James has in recent years appeared...styles are so radically different, that Henry James should have come to represent, to so...
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Girls on Film: Postmodern Renderings of Jane Austen and Henry James
Journal article by Anna Despotopoulou; Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, English literature--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)--Criticism and interpretation, The Portrait of a Lady (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation
...Postmodern Renderings of Jane Austen and Henry James. by Anna Despotopoulou ABSTRACT...adaptations of novels by Jane Austen and Henry James, arguing that, through their innovative...nineteenth-century fiction. Novels by Jane Austen and Henry James do offer film opportunities for presenting...
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De Cette Triste Plume Tatonnante: Henry James and 'The Task of the Translator'
Journal article by Nicola Bradbury; Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Authors, English--Criticism and interpretation, English literature--Criticism and interpretation, English writers--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)--Criticism and interpretation
...solution, conversion, and interpreter mark the space for translation, even while...translation illuminates the work of Henry James. De cette triste plume tatonnante...Scribner, 1907-09). (2) Reprinted in Henry James, The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces...
4.
What's Funny about Huckleberry Finn
Journal article by Sacvan Bercovitch; New England Review, Vol. 20, 1999
Subjects: Twain, Mark--1835-1910--Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
...Madison, 1997 ), p. 3. For critical comments on Huck see Arac, passim, and the essays collected in Gerald Graff and James Phelan, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (Bedford Books: Boston, 1995...
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"Massed Ambiguity": Fatness in Henry James's the Ivory Tower
Journal article by Daniel Hannah; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 53, 2007
Subjects: Ambiguity--Portrayals, James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)--Works, Overweight persons--Portrayals, The Ivory Tower (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...use for them here in any other. --Henry James, notes for The Ivory Tower (221) (1...Armstrong, Tim. "Disciplining the Corpus: Henry James and Fletcherism." American Bodies: Cultural...2004): 106-29. Fogel, Daniel Mark. Henry James and the Structure of the Romantic Imagination...
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magazine articles on: (Twain Mark 1835 1910) OR (James Henry 1843 1916)  - 15 results

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Henry James and the Heavenly Light
Magazine article by Bryan Berry; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2006
Subjects: James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)--Works, The Golden Bowl (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...appreciate "the other." Five years before James birth, in an address to the Harvard...his crib shortly after his birth, and Henry attended Emersons funeral. Like Emerson, the boys father, Henry Sr., believed in "the only true spiritual...been more real to me than natural," James Sr. wrote. We "have a plenary divine...finding God in their shoelaces. His son, Henry James Jr., found himself in the same situation...
2.
Bed Reading
Magazine article by William F. Buckley Jr.; National Review, Vol. 59, February 12, 2007
Subjects: American (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)--Criticism and interpretation, Travel books--Criticism and interpretation
...venerated bad book ever published. Now Henry James (1843-1916) is captivating when describing people...dictating his own last few baggy monsters, Henry James perfected such fluid elocution that...torrent of explanatory ramifications." Henry James! In his travel books James demonstrates...
3.
To Remain Indestructible in a Perishable World
Magazine article by Nicky Mchugh; History Today, Vol. 54, January 2004
Subjects: Hartford, Connecticut--Buildings and facilities, Twain, Mark--Homes and haunts
...Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96) and Mark Twain (1835-1910) stand side by side, fine examples...marble--were chosen to complement the Mark Twain House. The architects used a natural...John Boyer, Executive Director of the Mark Twain House. The Museum Center will offer...
4.
Congress: A Laughing Matter
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, July 22, 1996
Subjects: Political satire, American--History, Rogers, Will--Appreciation, Twain, Mark--Appreciation
...audiences laughed and loved both of them. Mark Twain and Will Rogers, the two men generally...regularly in the 1860s until his death in 1910. "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose...Twain of Missouri where he was born in 1835 and Rogers of the great plains, having...our Congress has been running it." Mark Twain, the nom de plume of Samuel Langhorne...national holiday. The speech is vintage Twain. It began with what sounded at first...
5.
Who Made Drake's Plate of Brass? Hint: It Wasn't Francis Drake
Magazine article by Edward Von Der Porten, Raymond Aker, Robert W. Allen, James M. Spitze; California History, Vol. 81, Spring-Fall 2002
Subjects: Archaeological forgeries--History, British exploration--History, California--Discovery and exploration, Drake, Francis--Discovery and exploration, Forgery of antiquities--History, Historical markers--Research
...This scenario is favored by co-author James M. Spitze. (13.) "Testimony of Lorenz...London: The Argonaut Press, 1926), and Henry R. Wagner, Sir Francis Drakes Voyage...became curator of the Bancroft Library in 1916, and its director in 1919. (3.) Herbert...e-mail of November 24, 2001, both to James Spitze. (35.) Ibid., 4-5, 9. (36...was authentic. Some critics, notably Henry R. Wagner, never accepted the plates...thirty-six-day stay at Drakes Bay in 1579. James M. Spitze is a graduate of the University...Mexico. His research includes work on Henry VIIIs warship Mary Rose, analysis of...
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Stop Smoking Now; "I Have Stopped Smoking Now and Then, for a Few Months at a Time, but It Was Not on Principle, It Was Only to Show off; It Was to Pulverize Those Critics Who Said I Was a Slave to My Habits and Couldn't Break My Bonds." Mark Twain (1835-1910), American Satirist
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 15, 2006
...a Slave to My Habits and Couldnt Break My Bonds." Mark Twain (1835-1910), American Satirist. Byline: Dr. Jose Pujalte Jr. "Seventieth Birthday Speech" NE things for sure, Mark Twain wasnt a nicotine addict. He was able to stop smoking...
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When Biography Becomes Fiction
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 22, 2004
Subjects: James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)
...novel about the great American novelist Henry James is a suggestive sign of the times. Modern...multiple sources. His hero is called Henry James, his dated chapters (each picking a...phrases and sentences from the writings of Henry James and his family". Where he occasionally...
3.
New Fiction
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 19, 2004
Subjects: James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)
...literary feasts outside Joanne Harriss Chocolat), that Dunn gives full rein to her imagination. Lucy fancies herself in love with Mark Smeaton, a court musician and Annes admirer, who is later executed for adultery with the Queen. Her story contains a humanity...
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Could You Be a Landlord to the Stars? Your Desirable Home Could Earn You a 'Stonking' Amount If You Let It to Visiting Celebrities - but Be Prepared for the Hassle Factor
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 16, 2006
Subjects: James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)
...agents and had bought up a lot of property in Central London to let out, but the main business has always been the sales side. Henry James, the company he co-owns with his sister, is a leading Knightsbridge estate agent. The premium lettings market seemed bland...
5.
Books: Review: The Master by Colm Toibin, Picador, Pounds 16.99
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 3, 2004
Subjects: James, Henry (American writer, 1843-1916)
...Irvine Colm Toibins decision to take Henry James as the subject and central character of...it has to be said, asking for trouble. James is widely regarded not only as the God...Toibin is just as subtle a psychologist as James, and brings real mystery and intrigue...
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encyclopedia articles on: (Twain Mark 1835 1910) OR (James Henry 1843 1916)  - 4 results

 
 
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Twain, Mark
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TWAIN, MARK pseud. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910, American author, b. Florida, Mo. As humorist, narrator, and social observer, Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. His novel The Adventures...he became a Mississippi River pilot hence his pseudonym, "Mark Twain," which was the river call for a depth of water of two...
2.
James, Henry , American Novelist and Critic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JAMES, HENRY , American novelist and critic 1843 1916, American novelist and critic...in English. He was the son of Henry James , Sr., a Swedenborgian theologian, and the brother of William James , the philosopher. Educated privately...
3.
National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Lincoln and other presidents. Rainbow Bridge MO S Utah 1910 160 (65) Pink sandstone arch. Russell Cave MO NE Ala...schools. Longfellow HS E Mass. 1972 2 (.8) Home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1837 82) in Cambridge; also George...
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Periodical
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...famous of its kind. The Economist (1843 ), despite its name, is an international...Edward Everett , E. T. Channing, James Russell Lowell , and Henry Adams . The New-York Mirror (1823...included Harpers Weekly (New York, 1857 1916), for which George W. Curtis wrote famous...1928), at first Congregationalist under Henry Ward Beecher (1861 63) and Theodore...editors Walter Lippmann (1914 17) and Henry A. Wallace (1946 48). The American...


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