Beyond sensation Henry James: an author for whom a spade was seldom a spade. And for whom the fleshy carapace of the human soul was, frankly... well, must we? So why, asks Jonathan Heawood, is this prim, circumlocutory Victorian novelist all the rage among a new generation of writers?

The Independent on Sunday | June 13, 2004| | Copyright

In 1898 Henry James went to the movies and saw a film of the prizefight between "Gentleman Jim" Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons which had taken place the previous year in Carson City, Nevada. Corbett, the heavyweight champion of the world, was knocked out with a devastating blow to the solar plexus in the 14th round. The film was drawing huge crowds on both sides of the Atlantic and James was immediately converted to the charms of the "cinematograph - or whatever they call it", writing enthusiastically to tell his friend Sarah Wister that he "revelled" in this first glimpse of the moving ...

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