UID:
edocfu_9960819762902883
Format:
1 online resource (lxxxv, 236 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-009-07227-7
,
0-511-78226-8
Series Statement:
The Cambridge edition of the complete fiction of Henry James ; 6
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. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on August 25. 2022).
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General Editors' Preface -- General Chronology of James's Life and Writings -- Introduction -- Textual Introduction -- Chronology of Composition and Production -- Bibliography -- Washington Square -- Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases -- Notes -- Textual Variants -- List of Emendations -- Appendices -- A. Picture and Text -- B. George du Maurier's Illustrations -- C. Extract from James's Notebooks.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107003897
Language:
English
Keywords:
Fiction.
;
Novels.
