HENRY JAMES (1843 - 1916) Life a wealthy cultured family father-- an eminent philosopher and reformer brother--a famous philosopher and psychologist developed a life-long friendship with Howells, who became his “moral police.“(道德榜样) He settled down in London in 1876. In the Harvard Law School, he read French novelists and critics. He toured England, France and Italy, and met Flaubert and Turgenev. the cultural influence of Europe In 1915 he became a British citizen. PERSONAL INFORMATION Henry James was born in New York in 1843. He belonged to a rich family who could afford the private tutors and governesses that educated him, but he was above all a “devourer of books”. PERSONAL INFORMATION He was the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James. At the age of twenty-five he was recognized as the best short story writer in America. He never married. PERSONAL INFORMATION For many years he alternated visits to England, France and Italy to stays in the USA. In 1875 he decided that Europe was his ideal home and settled in Paris, where he met Flaubert and Maupassant. PERSONAL INFORMATION Then he went to England where the most well-known writers of the period, such as Conrad and Kipling, accepted him as a friend and appreciated his books. The author and his time He never took part in public affairs or showed much interest in the economic and social changes of the period. The author and his time He was deeply interested in the contrast between the old world and the new one, between the European way of life, which he considered fascinating, sophisticated, rich in culture and tradition but corrupting, and the American one which he considered too rigid, Puritan but innocent.
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