%0 Journal Article
%T Teaching the ¡°Grandsons of Balzac¡± a Lesson: Henry James in the 1890¡¯s
%A Dennis F. TREDY
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2004
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.498
%X Lyall H. Powers, in Henry James and the Naturalist Movement, dubs the period spanning from ¡°The Art of Fiction¡± in 1884 to The Tragic Muse in 1890 Henry James¡¯s ¡°Naturalist Experiment¡±, and rightfully so (Powers 3). There is much evidence, in James¡¯s own notebooks, that The Bostonians was influenced by Daudet¡¯s L¡¯¨¦vangeliste, The Princess Casamassima by Turgeneff¡¯s Virgin Soil, and The Tragic Muse by the narrative techniques of Maupassant (NB 47, Powers 91, NB 92), and Powers effectively show...
%U http://erea.revues.org/498