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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Henry James, Jr.
We are growing more cosmopolitan and varied, in these United States of America; and our authors are gaining much, if they are also losing a little, in respect to training.
The early career of an American author used to be tolerably fixed and clear, if limited; a college education, a few months in Europe, a few years in some profession, and then an entrance into literature by some side-door.
In later times, the printing-office has sometimes been substituted for the colleg tain catch-words so often as to furnish almost a shibboleth for his style; such words, for instance, as brutal, puerile, immense.
Another result is seen in his indifference to careful local coloring, especially where the scene is laid in the United States.
When he draws Americans in Europe, he is at home; when he brings Europeans across the Atlantic, he never seems quite sure of his ground, except in Newport, which is in some respects the least American spot on this continent.
He opens his E
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Alexandre Dumas (search for this): chapter 7
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Charlotte Bronte (search for this): chapter 7
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