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For the last day or so I’ve been hearing Trump in my head saying “these nasty Marxist critiques are very unfair to Henry James — not nice!”

the airport and drugstore categories which replaced the older genres begins to flourish in opposition to the formerly modernist “classics” of college humanities courses, while, under the force field of globalization, a newer novelistic production begins to sort itself out into categories of national origin, […]

the viability of the full-blown nineteenth-century or "realist" novel rested on prota-gonicity, that is, the capacity of its central character to suffer history's lightning strikes and to survive in some memorable form, which might well simply be death (or its American equivalent, failure).

“Form problems in Henry James” was definitely a problem for me. Needed 3 goes to make sense of ( although it’s an address to a symposium so is not aimed at a general reader )