![]() ![]() I must have been drawn to the late James even then, since I also recall writing a paper on the latter novel, though what I chiefly remember about that exercise is a gentle suggestion from the instructor that I was not as clear as I might have been about what exactly its innocent protagonist, Lambert Strether, discovers in the climactic episode. ![]() I was a bookish child who spent much of her adolescence consuming nineteenth-century novels indiscriminately with twentieth-century bestsellers, but while I have vivid memories of weeping over Tess of the d’Urbervilles and impressing adults with my capacity to read all of War and Peace, I do not recall encountering James until my sophomore year in college, when a course on the English novel introduced me to both The Portrait of a Lady (1880–1881) and The Ambassadors (1903). ![]() I have been teaching and writing about Henry James for half a century, but it was only the other day that I realized how closely I associate him with the classroom. ![]()
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