Download or read book Henry James written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume in the American Critical Archives series, Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James's work ever assembled. This collection also reprints many rarely seen notices written by the most important women reviewers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Each chapter ends with a checklist of additional reviews not presented here. The introduction surveys the major themes of the reviews and also shows how they personally influenced James and his work.