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Zusatztext The academic Oliver Herford achieved something, if not impossible, then very unlikely: a new contribution to our understanding of the life and work of Henry James. Informationen zum Autor Oliver Herford is a Birmingham Fellow in English Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century at the University of Birmingham. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and University College London, and has taught in the Universities of London, Oxford, and Birmingham, including three years as Darby Fellow and Tutor in English at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is currently editing the Prefaces to the New York Edition for The Complete Fiction of Henry James (CUP). Klappentext Henry James's Style of Retrospect examines the last twenty-five years of James's writing life, focussing on the rather the substantial body of retrospective and commemorative non-fiction which he began to produce in the 1890s Zusammenfassung Henry James's Style of Retrospect examines the last twenty-five years of James's writing life, focussing on the rather the substantial body of retrospective and commemorative non-fiction which he began to produce in the 1890s Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on Texts, Abbreviations, and Transcriptions Figures Introduction 1: Commemorations: the Personal Past 2: Representations: the Past as Style 3: The Given Case: William Wetmore Story and His Friends 4: Allusion to the Past: The American Scene 5: Revisions of the Picturesque, from Transatlantic Sketches to Italian Hours 6: 'Everything Counts': Prefaces to the New York Edition 7: Things Heard: A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother Ending and Going On, 1914-15 Select Bibliography
