Abstract:T HE PROTAGONIST of The Bostonians is an unreconstructed rebel from Mississippi who literally steals the show from a group of New England reformers. Henry James succeeded in making Basil Ransom one of...T HE PROTAGONIST of The Bostonians is an unreconstructed rebel from Mississippi who literally steals the show from a group of New England reformers. Henry James succeeded in making Basil Ransom one of his most complex male characterizations, but in attempting to create him as the embodiment of chivalry and a traditional society he reveals a certain ambivalence that raises some interesting problems in technique. When James wrote the novel in i886 he had never visited the South, and he even feared that his long residence in Europe had thrown him out of touch with the America he had known in his youth. But during a trip to Boston and New York a few years before, he had determined to prove that he could produce an important novel about his own country. In his first exploration of the theme in his Notebooks he recorded:Read More
Publication Year: 1955
Publication Date: 1955-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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