The Outcry

The first authoritative edition of Henry James's last completed novel, The Outcry (1911).

Henry James (Author), Jean Chothia (Edited by)

9781107002692, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 November 2016

358 pages, 3 b/w illus. 1 map
23.5 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.64 kg

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 Outcry, James's last completed novel, is an ironic depiction of the contemporary art market in which wealthy Americans are plundering British-owned treasures. James adapted the work, originally written as a play, into novel form with great success. This edition, based on the work's first book appearance in 1911, reconstructs the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts, includes extensive annotation, and gives a detailed textual history. In exploring the process of adaptation it allows particular insight into James's skills as a novelist. The volume will be of interest to James scholars, art and theatre historians and students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, while also contributing to the developing field of adaptation studies.

General editors' preface
General chronology of James' life and writings
Introduction
Textual introduction
Chronology of composition and production
Bibliography
The Outcry
Glossary of foreign words and phrases
Notes
Textual variants
Emendations
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Classic fiction [pre c 1945 FC], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]