adjective
Etymology
Origin of Jamesian
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It’s a flawed book in some ways, but it’s also a social novel that captures a very romanticized period, almost in a Henry Jamesian way, in Greenwich Village.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
But with her Jamesian attention to the slightest movement of bodies and words, Kitamura keeps “Intimacies” rooted to the ordinary domestic experiences of her narrator, her petty jealousies, her passing suspicions.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021
Narrated by a man called Tracker, whose supernaturally keen nose has earned him work as a kind of bounty hunter, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” is also a distinctly Jamesian entry into the fantasy canon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2020
David Lodge published Author, Author, a novel about Henry James, in the same year that three other Jamesian books came out, including one by Colm Tóibín that got more attention and praise.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2019
No crude explanation of the decisions he made can do justice to the multiple loyalties he felt, or the almost Jamesian way he thought about and ultimately resolved them.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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