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- Title
Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and Modern Criticism.
- Authors
Lustig, T. J.
- Abstract
This article offers two case studies. The first examines James's encounters with medieval buildings in his early travel writings. The second takes as its starting point James's involvement in The Quest of the Holy Grail , a text which accompanied an 1895 exhibition of paintings by Edwin Austin Abbey. While James's knowledge of medieval architectural forms seems both confident and coherent, his awareness of medieval literary forms seems more tentative and even sketchy. Reasons for this disparity are considered, but medieval romance motifs are nevertheless found to inform James's conception of criticism from the outset of his career.
- Subjects
TRAVEL writing; JAMES, Henry, 1843-1916; MEDIEVAL architecture; ABBEY, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911; AWARENESS
- Publication
Henry James Review, 2023, Vol 44, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0273-0340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hjr.2023.0004