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The American Scene

Henry James

1907

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

Henry James’s American Journey

Why his turn-of-the-century travelogue still resonates.

by Anthony Domestico via The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 28, 2025
Book Review

Visions of Waste

"The American Scene" is Henry James’s indictment of what Americans had made of their land.

by Peter Brooks via New York Review of Books on March 3, 2022

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Distorted photo of Henry James with two Henry James faces as ears.

A Mind So Fine: Two Scholars Tackle James

Passing your eyes over those first, electric sentences, it occurs to you that his readers are still catching up.

by Peter Huhne via Cleveland Review of Books on November 14, 2025

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