The Influence of Henry James on American Culture

By the end of his novels, a story like The Golden Bowl is very much the kind of plot of Downton Abbey. Americans were forming their ideas of what Europe would be like partly through novels like James's. So how much impact did Henry James's works actually at the time have on the people who read them? Well, it's hard to say how much impact he had on an individual reader,. But culturally, his impact was very great indeed.