Purloined Author
Claude Rawson, 5 February 1981
Writing and Reading in Henry James
by Susanne Kappeler.
Macmillan, 242 pp., £15, January 1981,0 333 29104 2 Show More
by Susanne Kappeler.
Macmillan, 242 pp., £15, January 1981,
“... the critics go on writing it for him. And not necessarily a better reader than you or I or Ms Kappeler: ‘there is nothing in [James’s] prefaces apart from some trivial biographical data of little interest, that we as readers should not be able to trace on our own.’ Ms Kappeler concedes that James is in it ... ”
