“The treacherous years”: Reading The American Scene in the Twenty-First Century

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Pages: 83-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/UGWY9838

Abstract:

The present paper tries to argue that facing the challenges and promises of the twenty-first century today is, in fact, connected to the painful realization that we did not read the signs of the tragedies we have had to endure for the first two decades of the new century in our own past. In other words, it poses once again the question of how we come to terms with the past, with our own memories of what we wanted to be, and what we have become. And, as Dante chose a poet as a guide through Hell, I have chosen Henry James in this journey of Hell, not Heaven.

Keywords:

Henry James, The American Scene, the Promised Land, immigration

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