![]() ![]() The six chapters of this collection present varied perspectives about James’ more travel-oriented writings, fictional and non-fictional, unraveling travel as a key theme and metaphor of James’ writing.ĥAllen Hibbard (USA), in the first chapter of the book, argues that reading The Ambassadors (1903) and The American Scene (1907) comparatively can help the reader better understand the current transitional issues. Thus, this volume refers to the travel influence on James’ writings having a “double focus” (4) on the one hand his travel writing paves the way for his short stories and novels and functions as a solid base for them, while on the other it also reflects on James’ adoption of “fictional techniques” in composing his travel accounts, such as shaping juxtaposed characters, “a sentimental tourist vs. The book shows both James’ growing interest in travelling and his readings of travel writing since an early age which contribute to both his own advancement as an author of travelogues and fictional writing. ![]() ISBN: 978-2-6 (hbk)ģHogar Najm Abdullah, PhD candidate, University of Szeged, HungaryĤ Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction edited by Miroslawa Buchholtz illuminates the implicit ways James’ travelling experiences influence his oeuvre. ![]() Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-FictionĢRoutledge, 2019. ![]()
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