Freudian or Jungian techniques

" novels of Henry James are psychological in that the crucial events occur in the souls of the protagonists, and it was perhaps James more than any serious novelist before or since who convinced frivolous novel-readers that the “psychological approach” guarantees a lack of action and excitement."

• Italian Hours

The Reverberator 

• The tragic muse

The Princess Casamassima 

• Literary realism

the reality of experience

•  'multilingual style on many levels and aiming at a multiplicity of meanings, but, although seemingly unintelligible at first reading'