{"id":3816,"date":"2015-04-20T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:16:29","slug":"theme-of-the-week-henry-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/theme-of-the-week-henry-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme of the Week: Henry James"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/sites\/default\/files\/henryjames.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Portrait of Henry James&#8221;, oil painting by John Singer Sargent (1913)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Henry James was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century\u00a0literary realism.<\/p>\n<p>He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to\u00a0impressionist painting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Arts\/Arts_\/Pictures\/2014\/8\/12\/1407854966972\/Henry-James-009.jpg\" width=\"434\" height=\"260\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"box shadow aligncenter\"><div>\n\t\t\t<strong>5 Facts about Henry James<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Henry James was born and raised in America but loved England so much that he traveled there often and eventually died there as a British citizen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0Even though he died in England, his body was returned to the United States and buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>\u00a0Henry James influences as a writer were Honor\u00e9 de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henrik Ibsen, Ivan Turgenev and George Elito.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong>\u00a0He frequently wrote about character differences between people from the Old World (Europe) and people from the New World (United States).<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong>\u00a0For most of his life, James possessed ambitions for success as a playwright. He converted his novel The American into a play that enjoyed modest returns in the early 1890s. In all he wrote about a dozen plays, most of which went unproduced.\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry James was an American-British writer who spent most of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[1591,57,182,839,1648,1226,188,250,143,325],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","tag-april-2015","tag-books","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-facts","tag-henry-james","tag-interesting-people","tag-literature","tag-penguin-books","tag-read","tag-theme-of-the-week","cat_731"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}