‘Deconstructing The art of the novel and liberating
James’s prefaces’
by Hershel Parker
in : Henry James review, vol. 14 no. 3 (Fall 1993), pages 284–307
in : Henry James review, vol. 14 no. 3 (Fall 1993), pages 284–307
a heartfelt plea to restore the prefaces to their status as prefatory to
individual fictions or groups of fictions, instead of as part of
Blackmur’s sequence, even to the point of dismembering a copy
of The art of the novel
