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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
laim upon him. This very passion for Europe, as he has exhibited it in himself and in so many of his creatures, this European adventure of Lambert Strether and Isabel Archer (of The portrait of a Lady）— what more purely American product can be conceived? Even to the conscientiousness with which young James did his London sightseeiith the greatest personal affection, his cousin Mary Temple, the model for Milly Theale in The Wings of the Dove, as he tells us, and also — as we guess — for Isabel Archer of The Portrait of a Lady and more than one other of his loveliest American women. Of her death he says we felt it together as the end of our youth. So far he spirit of England in the aesthetic nineties reacting against the spirit of England in the time of Carlyle. But then we think of the passionate pilgrimage of Isabel Archer and the others; we think of James's Middle years; we think, it may be, of ourselves and eastward prostrations of our own. And we realize that what the romance