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    Daisy Miller (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
    Daisy Miller (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
    Daisy Miller (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
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    Daisy Miller (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Henry James
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    Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: chapter-by-chapter analysis
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSparkNotes
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9781411474666
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      Daisy Miller (SparkNotes Literature Guide) - SparkNotes

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      Daisy Miller

      Henry James

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      Contents

      Context

      Plot Overview

      Character List

      Analysis of Major Characters

      Themes, Motifs, and Symbols

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4, first half

      Chapter 4, second half

      Important Quotations Explained

      Key Facts

      Study Questions and Essay Topics

      Review and Resources

      Context

      In the autumn of

      1877

      , Henry James (

      1843

      –

      1916

      ) heard a piece of gossip from a friend in Rome about a young American girl traveling with her wealthy but unsophisticated mother in Europe. The girl had met a handsome Italian of vague identity and no particular social standing and attempted to introduce him into the exclusive society of expatriate Americans in Rome. The incident had ended in a snub of some sort, a small social check . . . of no great gravity, the exact nature of which James promptly forgot. Nevertheless, in the margin of the notebook where he recorded the anecdote, he wrote Dramatise, dramatise! He never knew the young lady in question or heard mention of her again, but he proceeded to immortalize the idea of her in Daisy Miller.

      A native of New York, James had been born into a world of ideas and letters. His father, an amateur philosopher and theologian who had inherited a considerable fortune, socialized with all the leading intellectuals of the day. Henry’s older brother, William, would become a key figure in the emerging science of psychology. In

      1855

      , when James was twelve, the family embarked on a three-year tour of Europe that included London, Paris, and Geneva. The experience was to have a profound influence on James’s life and writing. In addition to European art and culture, the trip exposed him to the erudition of European society. It also put him in an ideal position to observe the contrasts between New and Old World values, a conflict that was to appear repeatedly in James’s fiction as the international theme.

      Daisy Miller was first published in the June and July

      1878

      issues of the British magazine Cornhill. It was an instant success, transforming James into an author of international standing. The novel’s popularity almost certainly derived from the portrait at its center, of a naïve, overly self-confident, and rather vulgar American girl attempting to inhabit the rarified atmosphere of European high society.

      The post–Civil War industrial boom had given rise to a new class of wealthy Americans for whom the grand tour, an extended trip through Europe, represented the pinnacle of social and financial success. As a result, Americans

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