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The American Scene
A fully annotated edition of The American Scene which documents the literary and historical richness of James' late work.
Henry James (Author), Peter Collister (Edited by)
9781108471176, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 26 September 2019
706 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 4 cm, 1.11 kg
'Peter Collister's new edition of The American Scene is an indispensable guide to this experimental narrative.' Sarah B. Daugherty, American Literary Scholarship
Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based on both romantic and practical motives, allowed him to revisit the now-transformed cities of his youth as well as to experience for the first time the country's southern states. The American Scene is a major work from James' final, most adventurous creative phase and offers a cultural and social critique of contemporary American society as well as a personal series of 'gathered impressions', a form of indirect yet sometimes intimate autobiography. This new edition includes detailed explanatory notes, a general introduction, a chronology, an itinerary of James' journey, a record of textual variants and rare manuscript material, appendices which include the journal James kept, texts for the two lectures he gave, and two additional essays written on his return to England.
Acknowledgments
A note on this edition
Chronology: Henry James' life and writings
James' American itinerary
List of abbreviations
Editor's introduction
The American Scene
Glossary of foreign words and phrases
Notes on textual variants
Appendices
Select bibliography
Index.
Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]