"The American Scene"
Jul. 25th, 2009 03:04 pmI'm currently recording the details of a volume of travel writings by Henry James, and the current section struck me as somewhat... odd. It is a collection of essays that James published, in the early 1900s, as The American Scene. Here are the chapter headings:
I. New England: An Autumn Impression
II. New York Revisited
III. New York and the Hudson: A Spring Impression
IV. New York: Social Notes
V. The Bowery and Thereabouts
VI. The Sense of Newport
VII. Boston
VIII. Concord and Salem
IX. Philadelphia
X. Baltimore
XI. Washington
XII. Richmond
XIII. Charleston
XIV. Florida
I ask you: does anything about that set of headings strike you as odd? Remember: The American Scene, published in the early 1900s....
I. New England: An Autumn Impression
II. New York Revisited
III. New York and the Hudson: A Spring Impression
IV. New York: Social Notes
V. The Bowery and Thereabouts
VI. The Sense of Newport
VII. Boston
VIII. Concord and Salem
IX. Philadelphia
X. Baltimore
XI. Washington
XII. Richmond
XIII. Charleston
XIV. Florida
I ask you: does anything about that set of headings strike you as odd? Remember: The American Scene, published in the early 1900s....