GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 32

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Henry James’s essay The Art of Fiction was preceded by his book-length study of which author?

William Faulkner
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Aphra Behn
Oscar Wilde

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Correct answer: (B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

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James’s critical study Hawthorne preceded The Art of Fiction, so B. Its subject is Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American literary context. Faulkner belongs to a later literary generation; the other names are not the subject of that earlier James book.

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