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Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions
This second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886 contains 156 letters, of which 111 are published for the first time, written from December 24, 1885, to December 31, 1886. These letters mark Henry James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income. James details work on his midcareer novel The Princess Casamassima and announces plans for The Tragic Muse. This volume opens with James's engagement with friends in Britain and France and concludes with his arrival in Italy for a six-month visit.
About the Author
Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author and literary critic. He wrote some two dozen novels, including The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl, and left behind more than ten thousand letters.
Michael Anesko is a professor in the Department of English and in the American Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University. He is a general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James and author of Henry James and Queer Filiation: Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era.
Greg W. Zacharias is a professor in the Department of English and the director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is editor of the Henry James Review and of A Companion to Henry James.
Katie Sommer has been associate editor of the Complete Letters of Henry James series since 2007 and has worked on the Henry James letters project since 2001.
Reviews
"Michael Anesko and Gregory W. Zacharias's achievement amounts to a culmination; they have given us authoritative editions comprising all James's extant letters, complete with helpful contextual information."-Rafael Walker, Edith Wharton Review
Praise for The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878-1880, volumes 1 & 2
"Michael Anesko's superb introduction to both volumes places James's letters in these crucial years in the context of James's literary works and the broader social history in which they were produced. . . . These new volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James deserve our admiration for their scholarly rigor and the teamwork required not only of the volume editors and Michael Anesko but also of the associate editors, editorial assistants, and advisory group of this monumental project. . . . These handsome volumes . . . [are] extraordinary resources."-John Carlos Rowe, Resource for American Literary Study
Praise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series
"Reading [these] edited letters is a delight. The transcriptions allow one to read fluidly rather than haltingly, preserving the rhythm and tone of the original communications together with their content. The explanatory notes do a superb job of contextualizing the letters and identifying references and allusions within them. I could not help but admire the astonishing discernment and scholarship manifested in this volume."-Sarah Wadsworth, professor of English at Marquette University
"Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining-and prolific-correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters."-Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)
"This latest volume of the Complete Letters represents, no less than its forebears, an inestimable contribution to readers hitherto obliged to hunt down James's letters in various selections or scattered archives, and deserves to be greeted with the same jubilant chorus of praise and gratitude."-Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9781496226655
Author Henry James
Format Hardback
Page Count 376
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
This second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886 contains 156 letters, of which 111 are published for the first time, written from December 24, 1885, to December 31, 1886. These letters mark Henry James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income. James details work on his midcareer novel The Princess Casamassima and announces plans for The Tragic Muse. This volume opens with James's engagement with friends in Britain and France and concludes with his arrival in Italy for a six-month visit.
About the Author
Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author and literary critic. He wrote some two dozen novels, including The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl, and left behind more than ten thousand letters.
Michael Anesko is a professor in the Department of English and in the American Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University. He is a general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James and author of Henry James and Queer Filiation: Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era.
Greg W. Zacharias is a professor in the Department of English and the director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is editor of the Henry James Review and of A Companion to Henry James.
Katie Sommer has been associate editor of the Complete Letters of Henry James series since 2007 and has worked on the Henry James letters project since 2001.
Reviews
"Michael Anesko and Gregory W. Zacharias's achievement amounts to a culmination; they have given us authoritative editions comprising all James's extant letters, complete with helpful contextual information."-Rafael Walker, Edith Wharton Review
Praise for The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878-1880, volumes 1 & 2
"Michael Anesko's superb introduction to both volumes places James's letters in these crucial years in the context of James's literary works and the broader social history in which they were produced. . . . These new volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James deserve our admiration for their scholarly rigor and the teamwork required not only of the volume editors and Michael Anesko but also of the associate editors, editorial assistants, and advisory group of this monumental project. . . . These handsome volumes . . . [are] extraordinary resources."-John Carlos Rowe, Resource for American Literary Study
Praise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series
"Reading [these] edited letters is a delight. The transcriptions allow one to read fluidly rather than haltingly, preserving the rhythm and tone of the original communications together with their content. The explanatory notes do a superb job of contextualizing the letters and identifying references and allusions within them. I could not help but admire the astonishing discernment and scholarship manifested in this volume."-Sarah Wadsworth, professor of English at Marquette University
"Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining-and prolific-correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters."-Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)
"This latest volume of the Complete Letters represents, no less than its forebears, an inestimable contribution to readers hitherto obliged to hunt down James's letters in various selections or scattered archives, and deserves to be greeted with the same jubilant chorus of praise and gratitude."-Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9781496226655
Author Henry James
Format Hardback
Page Count 376
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
