Horne, P;
(2017)
Henry James, Winchelsea, Rye, and Thackeray’s Denis Duval.
The Henry James Review
, 38
(3)
pp. 219-230.
10.1353/hjr.2017.0028.
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Abstract
The topic of this essay is James’s “Winchelsea, Rye and Denis Duval” (1901, written 1899). It combines more thoroughly than any other by him the modes of travel writing, literary criticism, and autobiography, being an exercise in memory—personal, literary, and historical. It looks back to the time when James first dreamed of becoming a writer and to his earliest association with Rye—and to his actual beginnings as a published novelist. The essay pairs two neighboring Sussex towns and two texts, Thackeray’s last, unfinished novel, Denis Duval of 1864 and an unidentified English novel, now forgotten, of James’s youth. It also plays spectacularly with the rhetorical figure of chiasmus.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Henry James, Winchelsea, Rye, and Thackeray’s Denis Duval |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/hjr.2017.0028 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2017.0028 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10051389 |
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