{"product_id":"9780871404084","title":"Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography,\u003cbr\u003ecriticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, \u003cb\u003ePortrait of a Lady\u003c\/b\u003e (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel—the scandalous story of the expatriate American heiress Isabel Archer—came to be written in the first place. Traveling to Florence, Rome, Paris, and England, Gorra sheds new light on James’s family, the European literary circles—George Eliot, Flaubert,\u003cbr\u003eTurgenev—in which James made his name, and the psychological forces that enabled him to create this most memorable of female protagonists. Appealing to readers of Menand’s \u003cb\u003eThe Metaphysical Club\u003c\/b\u003e and McCullough’s \u003cb\u003eThe Greater Journey\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePortrait of a Novel\u003c\/b\u003e provides a brilliant account of the greatest American novel of expatriate life ever written. It becomes a piercing detective story on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008904249584,"sku":"9780871404084","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871404084_p0.jpg?v=1763844647","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871404084","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}