Scholars of English literature explore connections that American/British novelist James (1843-1916) had with various wars, and the depiction of war in his work. The topics include his struggle
with writing and friends, his sense of the American Civil War in The American Scene, echoes of The Great War in his correspondence and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, James on the empire,
acquisitive perception and inner conflict in his fiction, ghostly confrontations and inner conflicts in an autobiographical reading of ＂Owen Wingrave,＂ and The Turn of the Screw and the
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