Vision and Silence in the Works of Henry James
by
Lee McKay Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
In his 1896 short story, The Figure in the Carpet, James sets forth a riddle for his critical readers as he approaches the major phase in his career. He imagines a fictional novelist, Hugh Vereker, who tantalizes his critics with the idea of a single thread, a design woven throughout all of his major...