Princess Casamassima

The first scholarly edition of this major nineteenth-century novel, exploring anarchist activity, cultural crisis, and their causes.

List of contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Princess Casamassima; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendix: preface to the New York Edition.

About the author

Adrian Poole is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has written extensively on nineteenth-century novelists including Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Stevenson and James. He is one of the General Editors of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. His books include Henry James (1991), Shakespeare and the Victorians (2003), and (as editor) The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (Cambridge, 2009).

Summary

The novel is essential reading for scholars, critics and general readers interested in the political and social crisis of late-Victorian Britain, the means by which writers of the time represented it, and the ways in which subsequent readers have interpreted it in relation to their own times.

Product details

• Authors: Henry James
• Assisted by: Adrian Poole (Editor), Adrian (University of Cambridge) Poole (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781107011434
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01143-4
• No. of pages: 962
• Series: Cambridge Edition of the Compl; The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James; Cambridge Edition of the Compl
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form