Format:
CXXIV, 566 Seiten
ISBN:
9781107002753
Series Statement:
The Cambridge edition of the complete fiction of Henry James / general editors: Michael Anesko (Pennsylvania State University), Tamara L. Follini (University of Cambridge), Philip Horne (University College London), Adrian Poole (University of Cambridge) 32
Content:
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. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling … the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.
Content:
The birthplace -- The papers -- Fordham Castle -- Julia Bride -- The Jolly corner -- The Velvet glove -- Mora Montravers -- Crapy Cornelia -- The bench of desolation -- A round of visits
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite CXVI-CXXIV
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
DOI:
10.1017/9780511757440
Author information:
James, Henry 1843-1916
