The Jameses: A Family Narrative
by R. W. B. Lewis
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Traces the origins, development, and flowering of the intellectual family, from its eighteenth-century Irish origins to the death of the novelist Henry James in 1916.Tags
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Lewis covers the James family from 18th century Ireland up to the death of novelist Henry James in 1916. It is an impressive cast of characters. At best I could relate to Henry James, Sr., a man who railed against any model of institutionalized or organized religion. He spent a better part of his life on a quest to understand God, spirituality, and redemption. At times I found the rest of the narrative drawn out and too expansive. I have to admit, I did not finish.
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Chicago native Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, the son of Leicester and Beatrix (Baldwin) Lewis, was born on November 1, 1917. Lewis was educated in Switzerland, at Phillips Exeter Academy, at Harvard University, at the University of Chicago, where he received his M.A. in 1941. Lewis spent World War II engaged primarily in intelligence work for show more the British. Following the war, he began a long academic teaching career, focused mainly on American literature and social studies, at Bennington College and Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale universities. Lewis has created such critical and biographical books on authors and 19th-century United States history as The American Adam (1955), Edith Wharton (a 1975 biography that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft, and Critics Circle awards), and The Jameses: A Family Narrative, about author Henry James and his family. (Bowker Author Biography) R. W. B. Lewis, professor of English & American studies at Yale University, is the author of "Edith Wharton: A Biography", which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, & the Bancroft Prize. His other books include "The City of Florence", "The Jameses", & "American Characters". He most recently was given the award for lifetime achievement as a biographer by he American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in Bethany, Connecticut. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The Jameses : A Family Narrative
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Henry James, Sr.; Henry James; William James; Garth Wilkinson James; Robertson James; Alice James
- Important events
- American Civil War
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 929.2 — History & geography Biographies, Genealogy, Healdry Genealogy, Flags, Heraldry, Civil Records Families
- LCC
- CT274 .J35 .L49 — Auxiliary Sciences of History Biography Biography National biography
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- (4.20)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 2
