Henry James' Last Romance Quotes

“James's traumatic return home seems to have given him the terms in which to reformulate his sense of himself as a writer in and by his great retrospective labors: the New York Edition and his autobiographies. In these volumes he labored to ensure his place in the Anglo-American literary world, a place from which he must have believed that he might be less easily dispossessed than he had been from the place of his birth.”
― Beverly Haviland, Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene

“A meaningful future in America. This was something that James apparently had a hard time imagining.”
― Beverly Haviland, Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene