Often overlooked by modern critics, The Reverberator was a departure from Henry James' immediately preceding novels, The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima, returning to the popular 'international theme' of his earlier fiction. Its comedy of manners explores the conflicting values of American and Europeanized characters in the context of topical cultural concerns. Most notably, in its satire on popular journalism and an emerging mass-media through the scandal sheet 'The Reverberator', the novel dramatizes what James presciently saw as the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1888), provides a thorough account of the novel's sources and composition, literary and historical contexts, and extensive revision for the New York Edition (1908), as well as extensive annotation. It will be of interest to James scholars, students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture, and historians of journalism and new media.

Scholarly edition of Henry James' short comic novel about scandal in Paris, featuring a complete and comprehensive scholarly apparatus.

About the Author
Richard Salmon is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds. He has published extensively on Henry James and on Victorian literature, including Henry James and the Culture of Publicity (Cambridge, 1997) and The Formation of the Victorian Literary Profession (Cambridge, 2013).


Book Information
ISBN 9781107002708
Author Henry James
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 700g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 25mm