{"product_id":"henry-james-comes-home-rediscovering-america-in-the-gilded-age-paperback","title":"Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilded Age.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1904, after two decades of living and travelling abroad, Henry James returned to the United States to discover a world drastically different from the one he had left behind. Suddenly, the future of the world seemed to be in his native land, which he had once considered provincial, lacking in nourishment for the novelist. James thus set forth to refamiliarize himself with the United States, travelling the breadth of the land and exercising his acute powers of observation to document all that he saw. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames's ten-month journey across America and its product, the ethnographic work \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene, \u003c\/i\u003eare the focus of \u003ci\u003eHenry James Comes Home\u003c\/i\u003e, scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks's dazzling follow-up to his book \u003ci\u003eHenry James Goes to Paris\u003c\/i\u003e. Brooks combines biography and criticism to recreate James's American journey, tracing his travels around New England, down south to Florida, across the Midwest, up the coast of California, and eventually to Seattle and Portland. For James, being American was \"a complex fate,\" and Brooks shows how James's keen remarks on rampant materialism and the challenges at the heart of democracy are still of enduring relevance to us in this day.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Brooks \u003c\/b\u003eis a literary critic and author of several books of nonfiction, including\u003ci\u003e The Melodramatic Imagination, Reading for the Plot, Henry James Goes to Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Christian Gauss Award\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Seduced by Story\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is professor emeritus at Yale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44800238157926,"sku":"9781681379210","price":26.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/FIC5YiaiUv9781681379210.webp?v=1771286113","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/henry-james-comes-home-rediscovering-america-in-the-gilded-age-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}