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Title: An interesting Agon
Review: Peyser's title marks him as a (gratefully belated)ephebe of Raymond Williams but the book soon reveals this as a revisionist strategy designed to mask Peyser's true critical father, none other than Henry James himself. As such, the book is an interesting agonistic struggle and if James is (necessarily) the winner, the willingness to take up the fight in itself marks Peyser as a noteworthy critic with great ambition and great work ahead of him.
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