Levenson, Michael H. "Consciousness." In A Genealogy of Modernism, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 1-22.
Levenson's chapter explains how Joseph Conrad and Henry James introduced narrative innovations that the next generation of writers built on. A good comparative description of style and narrative point of view (nineteenth-century authorial omniscience versus limited-point-of-view technique).
James, Henry. The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces, New York: Scribners, 1934.
An excellent companion text for the study of James. In this collected edition of critical prefaces, James presents the circumstances which gave rise to some.....
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