Overview
Recipient of the ""Approved Edition"" seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a gap in literary studies today by presenting in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters and addressing a remarkably wide range of topics, this edition is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of James, the European novel and modern literature, and of American and English literature, culture, and criticism. Written between November 1875 and November 1876, the letters in this volume find James settling in Paris; befriending Ivan Turgenev and mixing company with writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, and Alphonse Daudet; publishing travel essays and critical notices as well as the novels Roderick Hudson and The American; leaving Paris and settling in London, where he would live for much of the rest of his life.
Full Product Details
Author: Henry James ,
Greg W. Zacharias ,
Pierre A. Walker
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Volume: Volume 3
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.794kg
ISBN: 9780803234574
ISBN 10: 0803234570
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 01 September 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The Letters collected in these elegant volumes, edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias, cover periods in which Henry James became Henry James... two things need to be said about this extraordinary job of editing that Walker and Zacharias have done. First, they print James's letters in plain text, reproducing his many misspellings and abbreviations and strike-outs: James wrote quickly and in an almost illegible hand; he blotted many words and yet hardly ever had to struggle for the right ones; his most aphoristic moments appear to have been spontaneous. Second, these letters contain an awful lot of proper names, many of them belonging to those who, like Edmund Tweedy, were obscure at the time and are more so now. Earlier editions of letters by Edel or Philip Horne, among others, have identified most of these figures. This edition gets them all, and both the footnotes and the biographical register at the back of each volume are at once succinct and full. They allow any reader to place and know the people in this busy social world. Michael Gorra, Times Literary Supplement Praise for earlier volumes: These extraordinary, profoundly welcome volumes are the first fruits of an epic undertaking by two heroic American scholars, Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias ... These early volumes give a wonderfully pleasurable picture of a writer at the beginning of his journey ... Philip Horne, The Daily Telegraph [James's] letters have never before appeared in their entirety. The University of Nebraska Press is attempting slowly, to make up for that fact in a scholarly edition that obviates the need for any other. Times Literary Supplement Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. He was also one of the most entertaining--and prolific--correspondents... These are richly enthralling letters. The sooner the next 138 or so volumes appear, the better. Peter Kemp, Sunday Times Some of the letters from Italy are small masterpieces of description; they are alert and sensitive and full of astute judgements. London Review of Books enthralling early letters from a genius in the making. Culture (Supplement to the Sunday Times), The general public has been deprived of James's full epistolary record until now... All the more reason to celebrate the present volumes, handsomely produced and extensively and intelligently annotated. Peter Brooks, Bookforum
Praise for earlier volumes: These extraordinary, profoundly welcome volumes are the first fruits of an epic undertaking by two heroic American scholars, Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias ... these early volumes give a wonderfully pleasurable picture of a writer at the beginning of his journey ... Philip Horne, The Daily Telegraph [James's] letters have never before appeared in their entirety. The University of Nebraska Press is attempting slowly, to make up for that fact in a scholarly edition that obviates the need for any other. Times Literary Supplement Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. He was also one of the most entertaining--and prolific--correspondents... These are richly enthralling letters. The sooner the next 138 or so volumes appear, the better. Peter Kemp, Sunday Times Some of the letters from Italy are small masterpieces of description; they are alert and sensitive and full of astute judgements. London Review of Books enthralling early letters from a genius in the making. Culture (Supplement to the Sunday Times), The general public has been deprived of James's full epistolary record until now... All the more reason to celebrate the present volumes, handsomely produced and extensively and intelligently annotated. Peter Brooks, Bookforum
The general public has been deprived of James's full epistolary record until now... All the more reason to celebrate the present volumes, handsomely produced and extensively and intelligently annotated. -Peter Brooks, Bookforum -- Peter Brooks Bookforum Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining-and prolific-correspondents... These are richly enthralling letters. -Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London) -- Peter Kemp Sunday Times (London) The Letters collected in these elegant volumes, edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias, cover periods in which Henry James became Henry James. -Michael Gorra, Times Literary Supplement -- Michael Gorra Times Literary Supplement
Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining--and prolific--correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters. --Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)--Peter Kemp Sunday Times (London) (03/28/2011)
Author Information
Henry James (1843–1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, and travel essays and is most famous for his many novels, which include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State University. He is the editor of Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene, available in a Bison Books edition, and the author of Reading Henry James in French Cultural Contexts. Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English at Creighton University, where he coordinates the Humanities Research Group and directs the Center for Henry James Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James and co-editor of Tracing Henry James.
