Henry James, Roderick Hudson

Neil Chilton (University of Bristol)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication Jan 1875 - Dec 1875

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Henry James began to write

Roderick Hudson

, the story of a young American sculptor and the patron who takes him to Europe, in Florence in the spring of 1874; as he later recalled, the novel’s earliest chapters were composed in a “high, charming, shabby old room which […] looked out, through the slits of cooling shutters, at the rather dusty but ever-romantic glare of Piazza Santa Maria Novella” (

Henry James: Literary Criticism

, pp. 1042–43). The book “was earnestly pursued during a summer partly spent in the Black Forest and (as I had returned to America early in September) during three months passed near Boston” (p. 1041). Still unfinished when it began its year-long serialisation in the

Atlantic Monthly

in January 1875,

Roderick Hudson

was eventually completed in New York…

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Citation: Chilton, Neil. "Roderick Hudson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 June 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2335, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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