Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Tony Tanner's collection of essays on James's nonfiction is based on a series of lectures he presented at the University of Georgia a few years ago. Tanner's main goal is to demonstrate that just as James transformed the novel as a genre, so he left his mark on travel writing, literary criticism, and autobiography. As one of our most eloquent and brilliant students of
English literature, Tanner is the ideal candidate to give this important part of James's oeuvre its due. Tanner's insights into the 'art' of James's literary criticism should encourage today's literary critics to rethink the purposes and limitations of their craft." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)