Unit9-Henry-James-美国文学选读.pptVIP

Biography Henry James was born into a wealthy cultured family. His father Henry James. Sr. was an eminent philosopher and reformer. His brother William James was the famous philosopher and psychologist. He was exposed to the cultural influence of Europe at a very early age. Later he met and developed a life-long friendship with William Dean Howells, who became his “moral police”(道德榜样) In the Harvard Law School, he read French novelists and critics . He toured England, France and Italy, and met Flaubert福楼拜, Turgenev屠格涅夫 He settled down in London in1876 In 1915 he became a naturalized Briti