Prefaces

This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his New York Edition (1907-9). It will be of value to James scholars and to scholars and advanced students of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.

List of contents

General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Prefaces; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

Summary

This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his New York Edition (1907–9). It will be of value to James scholars and to scholars and advanced students of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.

Foreword

The first scholarly edition of Henry James's Prefaces to the revised New York Edition of his novels and tales.

Product details

• Authors: Henry James
• Assisted by: Herford Oliver (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009661683
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0966168-3
• No. of pages: 829
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000