Jan 3, 2010

Roderick Hudson | Roderick Hudson

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Author: Henry James
First Published: 1876
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: 1870’s
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
Subjects: Gambling, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, Marriage, Beauty, Obsession, Ethics, Italy or Italians, Sculpting or sculptors, Switzerland or Swiss people, Rome, Debtors or creditors
Locales: Florence, Italy, Rome, Italy, Switzerland, Northampton, MA

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*Rome. Capital city of Italy after 1871 and one of the world’s art capitals, in which most of the novel takes place. Rowland Mallet, a man of inherited wealth and cultivated tastes, offers to accompany Roderick Hudson, a young and talented American sculptor, to Europe. Mallet sponsors him during their sojourn, undertaken to refine Hudson’s sensibilities through the study of art and general exposure to European culture. They visit Paris, Genoa, Milan, Venice, Florence, and other great cities, but it is Rome that most deeply captures Roderick’s imagination....

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Roderick Hudson | Roderick Hudson

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