Publications
Portrait of a novel : Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece , by Michael Gorra, published 2012 (384 pp., New York: Liveright, ISBN-10: 0871404087 & ISBN-13: 9780871404084) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Henry 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, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, 'portrait of a Lady' (1881).