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Prefaces
«'These unexpectedly moving prefaces offer us a chance to salute his strange and lonely genius.' Paul Dean, New Criterion»
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. James wrote the eighteen Prefaces included in this volume to accompany the revised, selective New York Edition of his novels and tales (1907–9).
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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. James wrote the eighteen Prefaces included in this volume to accompany the revised, selective New York Edition of his novels and tales (1907–9). They are unique and various writings: at once a digest of James's critical principles, an unsystematic treatise on fiction theory, an account of his rereading and revision of his own work, an oblique autobiography of the writing life and a public performance of authorial identity. This is the first scholarly edition of the Prefaces, and includes a detailed contextual introduction, a full textual history and extensive explanatory notes. It will be of value to researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781009661683
- Utgivelsesår
- 2025
Om forfatteren
Oliver Herford is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Henry James's Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890–1915 (2016) and a past president of the Henry James Society. He has published widely on James in journals and edited collections – on topics including his reading of Walter Scott and Honoré de Balzac, his allusive style and his practice of commemoration – and has also published on life-writing and letter-writing in the circle of John Keats.
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«'These unexpectedly moving prefaces offer us a chance to salute his strange and lonely genius.' Paul Dean, New Criterion»
«'formidable' M. C., The Times Literary Supplement»
«'Herford's explanatory notes are … as long and very nearly as intricate as the prefaces themselves. They track allusions and references, provide bits of biography, along with a great deal of history and even some late-Victorian gossip, and above all catch the way a given phrase echoes off other moments in James's work. They showed me things about these old friends that I did not know and represent not only an enormous amount of research, but also a feel for the novelist's prose and sensibility that goes deeper than bone.' Michael Gorra, The Times Literary Supplement»
«'All of this history is meticulously set out by Oliver Herford in the excellent introduction to this hefty volume of collected prefaces, which is part of the never-to-be-too-much-praised Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James … the notes that connect the themes and images of the prefaces to the fiction, the notebooks and (especially) to James's reading in French drama and prose will be of immense use to all but the most completely indoctrinated readers of James. As a work of scholarship it is entirely admirable.' Colin Burrow, London Review of Books»
«'part of the never-to-be-too-much-praised Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James … the notes that connect the themes and images of the prefaces to the fiction, the notebooks and (especially) to James's reading in French drama and prose will be of immense use to all but the most completely indoctrinated readers of James. As a work of scholarship it is entirely admirable.' Colin Burrow, London Review of Books»
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