THE FEMALE REVOLUTIONIST IN 19TH-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION – HENRY JAMES’S CHRISTINA CASAMASSIMA
THE FEMALE REVOLUTIONIST IN 19TH-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION – HENRY JAMES’S CHRISTINA CASAMASSIMA

Summary/Abstract: Though commonly associated with the international theme as a means of juxtaposing two cultural patterns, the American and the European one, Henry James also demonstrated his interest in the ardent socio-political affairs of his time, one manifestation of this interest being found in “The Princess Casamassima” (1886). Among other characteristics, this novel is taken to fictionalise the involvement of women in radical politics at the turn of the 19th century, a phenomenon illustrated by the novelist through the eponymous character.

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