미국의 각지역 장면들.The Book of The American scene, by Henry James

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THE AMERICAN SCENE
BY
HENRY JAMES
LONDON
CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD
1907
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

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CONTENTS
PAGE
I. NEW ENGLAND: AN AUTUMN IMPRESSION 1


II. NEW YORK REVISITED 72


III. NEW YORK AND THE HUDSON: A SPRING IMPRESSION 116


IV. NEW YORK: SOCIAL NOTES 158


V. THE BOWERY AND THEREABOUTS 194


VI. THE SENSE OF NEWPORT 209


VII. BOSTON 226


VIII. CONCORD AND SALEM 256


IX. PHILADELPHIA 273


X. BALTIMORE 303


XI. WASHINGTON 332


XII. RICHMOND 365


XIII. CHARLESTON 395


XIV. FLORIDA 422

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THE AMERICAN SCENE
BY
HENRY JAMES
LONDON
CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD
1907
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

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PREFACE
The following pages duly explain themselves, I judge, as to the Author’s point of view and his relation to his subject; but I prefix this word on the chance of any suspected or perceived failure of such references. My visit to America had been the first possible to me for nearly a quarter of a century, and I had before my last previous one, brief and distant to memory, spent other years in continuous absence; so that I was to return with much of the freshness of eye, outward and inward, which, with the further contribution of a state of desire, is commonly held a precious agent of perception. I felt no doubt, I confess, of my great advantage on that score; since if I had had time to become almost as “fresh” as an inquiring stranger, I had not on the other hand had enough to cease to be, or at least to feel, as acute as an initiated native. I made no scruple of my conviction that I should understand and should care better and more than the most earnest of visitors, and yet that I should vibrate with more curiosity―on the extent of ground, that is, on which I might aspire to intimate intelligence at all―than the pilgrim with the longest list of questions, the sharpest appetite for explanations and the largest exposure to mistakes.
I felt myself then, all serenely, not exposed to grave mistakes―though there were also doubtless explanations which would find me, and quite as contentedly, impenetrable. I would take my stand on my gathered impressions, since it was all for them, for them only, that I returned; I would in fact go to the stake for them―which is a sign of the value that I both in particular and in general attach to them and that I have endeavoured vito preserve for them in this transcription. My cultivated sense of aspects and prospects affected me absolutely as an enrichment of my subject, and I was prepared to abide by the law of that sense―the appearance that it would react promptly in some presences only to remain imperturbably inert in others. There would be a thousand matters―matters already the theme of prodigious reports and statistics―as to which I should have no sense whatever, and as to information about which my record would accordingly stand naked and unashamed. It should unfailingly be proved against me that my opportunity had found me incapable of information, incapable alike of receiving and of imparting it; for then, and then only, would it be clearly enough attested that I had cared and understood.
There are features of the human scene, there are properties of the social air, that the newspapers, reports, surveys and blue-books would seem to confess themselves powerless to “handle,” and that yet represented to me a greater array of items, a heavier expression of character, than my own pair of scales would ever weigh, keep them as clear for it as I might. I became aware soon enough, on the spot, that these elements of the human subject, the results of these attempted appreciations of life itself, would prove much too numerous even for a capacity all given to them for some ten months; but at least therefore, artistically concerned as I had been all my days with the human subject, with the appreciation of life itself, and with the consequent question of literary representation, I should not find such matters scant or simple. I was not in fact to do so, and they but led me on and on. How far this might have been my several chapters show; and yet even here I fall short. I shall have to take a few others for the rest of my story.
H. J.

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저자(글) Henry James

Henry James 헨리 제임스Henry James미국 소설가 겸 비평가Henry James ( ( 1843-04-15 ) 15 April 1843 ？ ( 1916-02-28 ) 28 February 1916)