Watch and Ward

This is the first-ever scholarly edition of Henry James's first novel, Watch and Ward.

Henry James (Author), Pierre A. Walker (Edited by), Jay S. Spina (Edited by)

9781107086487, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 March 2023

340 pages
23.5 x 16.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.62 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. While Watch and Ward has long been dismissed as an early apprentice work, it marks an important stage in James's development as a fiction writer, building upon the stories he wrote during the late 1860s and pointing, at the same time, to the works he would write during the ensuing decade and which would secure his reputation, including 'Daisy Miller', The American and The Portrait of a Lady. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand the novel's historical, cultural and literary references.

General editors' preface
General chronology of James' life and writings
Introduction
Contemporary reception of Watch and Ward
Textual introduction
Chronology of composition and production
Bibliography
Watch and Ward
Glossary of foreign words and phrases
Notes
Textual variants
Emendations.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]