Abstract

The settings of Henry James, and other examples of his discourse of nature, such as his literary criticism of the settings of other writers and his autobiographical descriptions of place, are most intelligibly to be understood as implicit deconstructions of romantic naturalism. This intertextuality may suggest a broader one connecting Jame's writing as a whole with the entire discourse of romanticism, which may in turn suggest a way of deconstructing those environmentalist mythologies of the « land » that are so widespread in modern US culture.

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