![]() ![]() ![]() But she is not the dramatic centre of the narrative. ![]() ![]() James’s purported main issue is the vulnerability of Nanda, surrounded as she is by a variety of dubious adult influences. There is very little action in the conventional sense of that term: people simply visit each other’s sitting rooms and talk over tea. The narrative is progressed largely through conversation between the characters, and each ‘book’ of the novel’s structure is based in a single location. The novel was written in the late phase of James’s career, just after the period of his disastrous experiments in the theatre, and it seems to bear the traces of a theatrical conception. It was written during the same period as What Maisie Knew (1896) and The Turn of the Screw (1898) in which the innocence of the young is threatened by the behaviour of the adults amongst whom they live. The Awkward Age first appeared as a serial in Harper’s Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. Tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links ![]()
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