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Washington Square (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Washington SquareDr Sloper is disappointed in his dull daughter, Catherine, a mediocre replacement for his beautiful and intelligent wife who died soon after childbirth. Yet, as Sloper threatens, beguiles and dictates to his daughter, he discovers in Catherine a pale reflection of his own obdurate character.
Full description- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Published: 31 August 2001
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | First World War
- ISBN 13: 9781840224276 ISBN 10: 1840224274
- Sales rank: 27,390
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Full description for Washington Square
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.
