Description
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.
The first scholarly edition of this popular Henry James novel, providing full socio-historical context and textual history.
About the Author
Gert Buelens is Professor of English and American Literature at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University. He is also the editor of Enacting History in Henry James (1997), and co-editor of The Catastrophic Imperative (2009), The Future of Trauma Theory (2013) and The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship (2019). His Henry James and the "Aliens" (2004) won the American Studies Network Book Prize. He is book review editor of the Henry James Review, and is editor-in-chief of the e-journal Authorship. He has served as President of the Henry James Society and Secretary-General of the European Association for American Studies. Susan M. Griffin was Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. She is the immediate past editor of the Henry James Review (Johns Hopkins UP), and has also authored or edited five books on James: The Art of Criticism (1986), The Historical Eye (1991), Henry James Goes to the Movies (2002), All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James (2010), and The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James & Alfred Hitchcock (2011).
Book Information
ISBN 9781107003897
Author Henry James
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 590g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm * 22mm
The first scholarly edition of this popular Henry James novel, providing full socio-historical context and textual history.
About the Author
Gert Buelens is Professor of English and American Literature at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University. He is also the editor of Enacting History in Henry James (1997), and co-editor of The Catastrophic Imperative (2009), The Future of Trauma Theory (2013) and The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship (2019). His Henry James and the "Aliens" (2004) won the American Studies Network Book Prize. He is book review editor of the Henry James Review, and is editor-in-chief of the e-journal Authorship. He has served as President of the Henry James Society and Secretary-General of the European Association for American Studies. Susan M. Griffin was Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. She is the immediate past editor of the Henry James Review (Johns Hopkins UP), and has also authored or edited five books on James: The Art of Criticism (1986), The Historical Eye (1991), Henry James Goes to the Movies (2002), All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James (2010), and The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James & Alfred Hitchcock (2011).
Book Information
ISBN 9781107003897
Author Henry James
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 590g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm * 22mm
