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Essay Archive - The Beast in the Jungle: The Beast of James
The Beast in the Jungle: The Beast of James
"In the case of Henry James there should not be much dispute about the
exactness and completeness of the representation; no man ever strove more
studiously or on the whole more successfully to reproduce the shape and
color and movement of his ęsthetic experience." These are the remarks
of Stuart P. Sherman from his article entitled "The Aesthetic Idealism of
Henry James," from The Nation, p. 397, April 5, 1917. Now, some seventy-two
years later critical readers are still coming to terms with James'
aesthetic vision. As....
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