{"product_id":"washington-square-1","title":"Henry James: Washington Square [2001] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/em\u003e marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James, Henry \u0026 Bell, Ian F.A. (Professor Of English Lit \u0026 Carabine, Dr Keith (University Of Kent A","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46490252968275,"sku":"9781840224276","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/james-henry-bell-ian-f-a-professor-of-english-lit-carabine-dr-keith-university-of-kent-a-washington-square-9781840224276-48979842564435.jpg?v=1680631729","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/washington-square-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}