Great Succession, The: Henry James and the Legacy of Hawthorne

The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates JamesAE transformation of HawthorneAEs romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of JamesAE early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.