Sacred Fount

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. One of James's strangest works, The Sacred Fount, explores ideas of sexual desire and power in an English country house setting. The novel aroused considerable critical bewilderment and hostility on its original publication in 1901 but was retrieved by a subsequent generation of critics who found its ambiguity and stylistic elaboration an instance of James's 'mastery' and an early example of literary modernism. This is the first critical edition of James' landmark text and is supported by a full critical apparatus including introduction, notes, glossary, textual variants and bibliography. The volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.

List of contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editor's preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of The Sacred Fount; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Sacred Fount; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

Summary

The first critical edition of Henry James's The Sacred Fount, featuring a full critical apparatus including introduction, notes, glossary, textual variants and bibliography. The volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars and students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.

Foreword

Presents a full critical edition of The Sacred Fount, one of Henry James's strangest and most ambiguous works of fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Henry James
• Assisted by: T. J. Lustig (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009662093
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0966209-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000