Elizabeth Duquette has been teaching nineteenth-century literature for more than twenty years, formerly at Gettysburg College and now sometimes at Portland State University. She is the co-editor of the American Literary History Review, an editor for American Art, and the author of American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (2023) and Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America.
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The Bostonians is Henry James’s most explicitly American novel—and not only because the characters spend their time arguing about politics and gender. Set in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, the book explores loyalty and love, fanaticism and friendship, family feuds and Boston marriages.
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