“Portrait of Henry James”, oil painting by John Singer Sargent (1913)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHenry 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
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
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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[box type=”shadow” align=”aligncenter” ]5 Facts about Henry James<\/strong><\/p>\n1.<\/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>\n2.<\/strong>\u00a0Even though he died in England, his body was returned to the United States and buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n3.<\/strong>\u00a0Henry James influences as a writer were Honor\u00e9 de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henrik Ibsen, Ivan Turgenev and George Elito.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong>\u00a0He frequently wrote about character differences between people from the Old World (Europe) and people from the New World (United States).<\/p>\n5.<\/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.[\/box]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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