The American Scene

AvHenry James,Peter Collister

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based on both romantic and practical motives, allowed him to revisit the now-transformed cities of his youth as well as to experience for the first time the country's southern states. The American Scene is a major work from James' final, most adventurous creative phase and offers a cultural and social critique of contemporary American society as well as a personal series of 'gathered impressions', a form of indirect yet sometimes intimate autobiography. This new edition includes detailed explanatory notes, a general introduction, a chronology, an itinerary of James' journey, a record of textual variants and rare manuscript material, appendices which include the journal James kept, texts for the two lectures he gave, and two additional essays written on his return to England.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-26
Mått:158 x 235 x 40 mm
Vikt:1 110 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:706
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108471176

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Peter Collister is the author of the award-winning two volumes of The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama (Cambridge, 2016). He has also edited James's autobiographical writings in A Small Boy and Others (2011) and 'Notes of a Son and Brother' and 'The Middle Years' (2011) and is the author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America (2007). He has also published numerous essays on English and French writers in British, European and American journals.

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'… Collister's The American Scene is furnished with abundant resources in terms of its critical apparatus and annotations, far outstripping those included in previous editions of the text. These do rigorous work historicising James' text, linking the incidents of the travelogue to the events of James' own journey, offering insight into the relationship between life and art … Of added interest to [the] scholarly community … will be Collister's collations of variants on the basis of the galley proofs for the chapter on 'New England', held today at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale … Collister's introduction is masterful and authoritative, and very useful is his inclusion of an itinerary of James' American journey, as are his appendices … Collister's The American Scene is an excellent edition, which will hopefully provide the text with a new readership.' Giles Whiteley, Notes and Queries

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments; A note on this edition; Chronology: Henry James' life and writings; James' American itinerary; List of abbreviations; Editor's introduction; The American Scene; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes on textual variants; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.