Download or read book The Great Succession written by Robert Emmet Long and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates James' transformation of Hawthorne's romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of James' early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.