The Bostonians

Presents the first fully annotated scholarly edition of The Bostonians, one of Henry James's most distinctive and important tragicomedies.

Henry James (Author), Daniel Karlin (Edited by)

9781107003989, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 July 2019

690 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 4 cm, 1.13 kg

'… one profitable way of reading The Bostonians might be as the first great vampire narrative of the fin de siècle.' Bharat Tandon, The Times Literary Supplement

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. The Bostonians is an extraordinary political and psychological drama narrating the struggle between Northern feminist Olive Chancellor and her cousin, former slaveholder and radical conservative Basil Ransom, for 'possession' of the beautiful, talented Verena Tarrant. The issues raised of the relations between the sexes, between North and South and between differing visions of 'progress' in America are as timely - and contentious - as when the novel first appeared. This fully annotated scholarly edition of one of James's most distinctive and important works features a detailed contextual introduction, full textual history and helpful explanatory annotation. It will be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
General editors' preface
General chronology of James's life and writings
Introduction
Textual introduction
Chronology of composition and publication
The Bostonians
Glossary of foreign words and phrases
Notes
Textual variants
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]