Henry James: The Bostonians
$265
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. James approaches these topics, and the philosophical issues they spawn, through the “civil” war that erupts between an utterly unreconstructed Southern man, his progressive female cousin, and the beautiful young woman they both hope to win (or conquer). Twenty years after the end of the bloody war, and a ten years from the collapse of Reconstruction, James encourages readers to consider who won and at what cost.
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Elizabeth Duquette
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.
