Title: The Europeans /
Authors: James, Henry, 1843-1916; Griffin, Susan M., 1953-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Europeans United States Fiction.; Brothers and sisters Fiction.; Upper class Fiction.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Brothers and sisters; Europeans.; Upper class; Boston (Mass.) Fiction; Domestic fiction.; Massachusetts Boston; United States
Abstract: "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' The Europeans gently satirizes both early nineteenth-century New England society and the sophisticated visiting Europeans who encounter it. While this wryly comic novel has had its critical champions - F. R. Leavis and Richard Poirier among them - it has not previously received the scholarly attention it deserves. This edition, based on the work's first book appearance in 1878, reconstructs the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts, provides extensive annotation, and gives a detailed textual history of the work, drawing on newly available James letters. It will be of interest to James scholars, book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture, and will also re-introduce readers to the pleasures of Henry James' early style"--
Contents: General chronology of James' life and writings -- Introduction -- Textual introduction -- Chronology of composition and production -- Bibliography -- The Europeans -- Glossary of foreign words and phrases -- Notes -- Textual variants -- List of emendations.