The Europeans

Henry James author Susan M Griffin editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Publishing:15th May '25

£22.99

This title is due to be published on 15th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Europeans cover

The first scholarly edition of Henry James' wryly comic early novel, The Europeans (1878).

Henry James' wryly comic novel, The Europeans (1878), gently satirizes both early nineteenth-century Boston society and the sophisticated Europeans who visited the city. This first scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.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. James's The Europeans gently satirizes both early nineteenth-century New England society and the sophisticated visiting Europeans who encounter it. While this wryly comic novel has had its critical champions - F. R. Leavis and Richard Poirier among them - it has not previously received the scholarly attention it deserves. This edition, based on the work's first book appearance (Macmillan, 1878), reconstructs the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts, provides extensive annotation, and gives a detailed textual history of the work, drawing on newly available James letters. It will be of interest to James scholars, book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture, and will also re-introduce readers to the pleasures of Henry James's early style.

'[One of] two handsome volumes in their Cambridge maroon cloth covers with gilt stamping on the binding and James's familiar signature on the covers are crucial additions to the resources scholars will use for generations to study the greatest novelist of the modern period.' John Carlos Rowe, The Henry James Review

ISBN: 9781009655941

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283 pages