![]() ![]() Gargano, "The Middle Years", A Companion to Henry James Studies, 1993. ![]() It was initially serialized in the Atlantic Monthly from September 1885 to October 1886. Even more naturalistic than its predecessor, The Princess reads today like an elegy for the beauty and traditions painfully evolved by civilized society and now endangered by what Yeats called 'mere anarchy'" (ibid., p. "The Princess Casamassima, a panoramic novel with a vivid English setting, documents a sensitive bookbinder's attempt to come to terms with his illegitimate birth and social disadvantages through involvement in subversive political action. The Princess Casamassima is one of James's "three formidable novels" composed during the 1880s, standing alongside The Bostonians (1886) and The Tragic Muse (1890) as demonstrating "a creative vigor and willingness to experiment that became distinctive watermarks of his career" (Gargano, p. First edition in book form, handsomely bound, and one of 750 copies. ![]()
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