Washington Square

The first scholarly edition of this popular Henry James novel, providing full socio-historical context and textual history.

Henry James (Author), Gert Buelens (Edited by), Susan M. Griffin (Edited by)

9781107003897, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 September 2022

312 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.59 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. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.

General editors' preface
General chronology of James's life and writings
Introduction
Textual introduction
Chronology of composition and production
Bibliography
Washington Square
Glossary of foreign words and phrases
Notes
Textual variants
List of emendations
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]