英美小说从传统向现代的过渡，小说题材取向改变，叙事结构、叙事手段及语言的整个叙事模式得以革新。亨利·詹姆斯，这位跨越两个世纪和英美两个英语国度的杰出作家，以其长期探索和大量试验，在理论和创造实践两个方面，完成了上述富有美学意义的过渡。 The transition from traditional to modern in British and American novels, the change in theme orientation of the novel, the narrative structure, the means of narration and the whole narrative mode of language can be innovated. Henry James, an outstanding writer who spanned two centuries and two Anglo-American English countries, accomplished the above-mentioned aesthetic transition with both long-term exploration and extensive experiments in both theory and practice.