![]() ![]() The novel reflects James's preoccupation in this period with writing about Americans traveling abroad, a theme shared with slightly later works such as Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady. The American is James's third novel after Watch and Ward (1870) and Roderick Hudson (1875) however, since James was eventually displeased with the former work and made efforts to suppress it, The American is sometimes represented as his second work. There is evidence that James had not completed the novel when it began to appear in the magazine he also began the novel with the expectation of publishing it in a different magazine, and it only found a home in The Atlantic at the last minute. In May 1877, as the serialization ended, a complete edition was published. ![]() The novel first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in twelve serialized, monthly installments from June 1876 to May 1877. Henry James began writing The American while living in Paris in the winter of 1875-1876. ![]()
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