The American: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)

Henry James

ISBN 10: 0393090914 / ISBN 13: 9780393090918

Published by W. W. Norton & Company September 1978, 1978

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The American: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company September 1978
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393090914
• ISBN 13: 9780393090918
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lit Crit::Subject

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Synopsis

The textual history of the novel is traced in A Note on the Text; a list of substantive variants and emendations; a facsimile manuscript page showing James's method of revision; and a list of the installments of the novel as they appeared in The Atlantic."Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant extracts from correspondence, reviews, and articles by James and others, and from his Notebooks and Hawthorne."Contemporary Reception" of the novel is illustrated by twenty-one American and English reviews."Twentieth-Century Criticism" is represented in essays by Leon Edel, Oscar Cargill, Irving Howe, Richard Poirier, Royal A. Gettmann, and James W. Tuttleton.A Selected Bibliography is included for further study.

About the Author

James W. Tuttleton is Professor of English at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and has been a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Thomas Wentworth Higginson and is the editor of Washington Irving's The Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus and of Edith Wharton: The Critical Heritage.