"What Maisie Knew" ( Henry James )

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"This research will examine the short novel What Maisie Knew by Henry James. The research will provide a critique of the emergence of knowledge of the self and of the world and the impact of that knowledge and of the process by which it emerges on the shape of personality that the "knower"--in this case a young girl--develops

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"This research will examine the short novel What Maisie Knew by Henry James. The research will provide a critique of the emergence of knowledge of the self and of the world and the impact of that knowledge and of the process by which it emerges on the shape of personality that the "knower"--in this case a young girl--develops.
The pattern of ideas in What Maisie Knew is most accurately described as an accretion of awareness and understanding by the child Maisie, who is the object of a nasty and protracted custody battle in the wake of her parents' divorce. As of 1999, this seems an obvious subject for treatment on (say) the Lifetime cable network, but in fact James published this work in 1907 and set it in the context of London's contemporary high society. The setting is important because it is very much the context of ..."

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