 Other critics such as E. M. Forster complained about what they saw as James's squeamishness in the treatment of sex and other possibly controversial material, or dismissed his late style as difficult and obscure, relying heavily on extremely long sentences and excessively latinate language.Similarly Oscar Wilde criticised him for writing "fiction as if it were a painful duty".Vernon Parrington, composing a canon of American literature, condemned James for having cut himself off from America.