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Toibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.

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The book does not disappoint. The essays may be incidental-reviews, introductions, lectures-but each conveys a sense of Toibin's deep engagement with his subject and his writer's way with words. Irish Times 2010 Anyone interested in Toibin's process of transforming the life of James into a novel of immense subtlety should look carefully at a recent volume of essays. -- Jay Parini Chronicle of Higher Education

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Susan M. Griffin
Chapter 1. Henry James in Ireland: A Footnote
Chapter 2. The Haunting of Lamb House
Chapter 3. A More Elaborate Web: Becoming Henry James
Chapter 4. Pure Evil: "The Turn of the Screw"
Chapter 5. The Lessons of the Master
Chapter 6. Henry James's New York
Chapter 7. A Death, a Book, an Apartment: The Portrait of a Lady
Chapter 8. Reflective Biography
Chapter 9. A Bundle of Letters
Chapter 10. All a Novelist Needs
Chapter 11. The Later Jameses
Afterword: Silence
Index

All a Novelist Needs

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 27 December 2010
      ISBN-13 9780801897795
      978-0801897795
      ISBN-10 0801897793
      Also in:
      Biography Essays ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary theory Colm Toibin Books by Colm Toibin

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Toibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.

      Trade Review
      The book does not disappoint. The essays may be incidental-reviews, introductions, lectures-but each conveys a sense of Toibin's deep engagement with his subject and his writer's way with words. Irish Times 2010 Anyone interested in Toibin's process of transforming the life of James into a novel of immense subtlety should look carefully at a recent volume of essays. -- Jay Parini Chronicle of Higher Education

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction by Susan M. Griffin
      Chapter 1. Henry James in Ireland: A Footnote
      Chapter 2. The Haunting of Lamb House
      Chapter 3. A More Elaborate Web: Becoming Henry James
      Chapter 4. Pure Evil: "The Turn of the Screw"
      Chapter 5. The Lessons of the Master
      Chapter 6. Henry James's New York
      Chapter 7. A Death, a Book, an Apartment: The Portrait of a Lady
      Chapter 8. Reflective Biography
      Chapter 9. A Bundle of Letters
      Chapter 10. All a Novelist Needs
      Chapter 11. The Later Jameses
      Afterword: Silence
      Index

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