Dec 15, 2009

The Bostonians | The Bostonians

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Author: Henry James
First Published: 1885
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: 1870’s
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, New York City, Social issues, New England, Reformers, Women’s rights, Hypnotism
Locales: New York, NY, Boston, MA

Places Discussed

*Boston. Massachusetts’s capital and leading city, known in this novel mainly as the city of reform and feminist views, which one character refers to as “Boston ideas.”

*Charles Street. Fashionable Boston street on which Olive Chancellor, the novel’s central feminist figure, lives. Near the even more fashionable Beacon Street. Because of where she lives, the wealthy Olive is expected to move in fashionable circles, but she has cut herself off from that milieu in order to be a reformer.

Olive’s house. Boston residence of Olive Chancellor;...

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The Bostonians | The Bostonians

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Places Discussed

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