Bostonians

Presents the first fully annotated scholarly edition of The Bostonians, one of Henry James's most distinctive and important tragicomedies.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and publication; The Bostonians; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Appendices.

About the author

Daniel Karlin is Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol and a world-leading authority on nineteenth-century British and American literature. He has taught in both the UK and USA, including Boston University.

Summary

The Bostonians is a brilliant tragicomedy, as fresh and sharp today as when it first appeared. This full critical edition of one of Henry James's most distinctive works will interest researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Henry James, Henry James
• Assisted by: Daniel Karlin (Editor), Daniel (University of Bristol) Karlin (Editor), Karlin Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781107003989
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00398-9
• No. of pages: 690
• Series: Cambridge Edition of the Compl; THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE C; The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James; Cambridge Edition of the Compl
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Englisch, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers