Henry James Writes New York

Leonardo Buonomo is Professor of American Literature at the University of Trieste, Italy. His principal area of specialization is nineteenth-century American literature, with a focus on transatlantic cultural relations and the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James. He is the author of Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860 (2014) and editor of The Sound of James: The Aural Dimension in Henry James’s Work (2021).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Henry James and New York, a Life-Long Relationship.- Chapter 2: Defining New York.- Chapter 3: James’s New York Novel: Washington Square.- Chapter 4: New York Revisited.- Chapter 5: The Returning New Yorker.