The fourth essay in Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination is on this novel, and places its protagonist within the tradition of the "Young Man from the Provinces".
The fourth essay in Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination is on this novel, and places its protagonist within the tradition of the "Young Man from the Provinces". The plot of this novel is set in motion by a meeting in a theater box during a performance of The Pearl of Paraguay. The protagonist has an affair with the resident of Medley Hall. Early on, Mrs. Bowerbank chaperones the protagonist as he visits his dying mother in Millbank prison. One character has an invalid sister named Rosy, who's attended to by the noblewoman, Lady (*) Aurora. The fiddler Mr. Vetch is the only friend of the dressmaker who raised Amanda Pynsent. She's given the task of assassinating a duke by Hoffendahl, whom he met through Paul Muniment. The title character of this novel previously appeared in the author's earlier novel Roderick Hudson, and is named Christina Light. FTP, name this novel in which Hyacinth Robinson gets involved with revolutionary politics and the title royal figure, a book written by Henry James. 
The fourth essay in Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination is on this novel, and places its protagonist within the tradition of the "Young Man from the Provinces".
The Princess Casamassima 