ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is the collection of the author's "impressions" of American society in which he designates the narrator as "the restless analyst". The author, whose "new" type of American fictions William Dean Howells astutely designated "the international novel" in 1882, Henry James repeatedly has incited fervent debates on his literary nationality. In aligning James with George Eliot and Jane Austen as a successor of "the great tradition" with an intimate acquaintance with English manners and society, in 1948 F. R. Leavis sheds light on a fundamental reason for the somewhat undecided nature of his Americanness in connection with his interest in exploring novelistic characters inner life. As Leavis appropriately implies, this was not a retirement from society; if he retired from something, he did so merely from the category of American literature.
