The American Scene
| AUTHOR | James, Henry; Collister, Peter |
| PUBLISHER | Cambridge University Press (09/26/2019) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
Description
Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based on both romantic and practical motives, allowed him to revisit the now-transformed cities of his youth as well as to experience for the first time the country's southern states. The American Scene is a major work from James' final, most adventurous creative phase and offers a cultural and social critique of contemporary American society as well as a personal series of 'gathered impressions', a form of indirect yet sometimes intimate autobiography. This new edition includes detailed explanatory notes, a general introduction, a chronology, an itinerary of James' journey, a record of textual variants and rare manuscript material, appendices which include the journal James kept, texts for the two lectures he gave, and two additional essays written on his return to England.
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ISBN-13:
9781108471176
ISBN-10:
110847117X
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
706
Carton Quantity:
10
Product Dimensions:
6.54 x 1.65 x 9.23 inches
Weight:
2.40 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Annotated,
Price on Product,
Glossary
Country of Origin:
GB
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Science | Essays
Science | General
Science | American - General
Dewey Decimal:
917.404
Library of Congress Control Number:
2019039719
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Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based on both romantic and practical motives, allowed him to revisit the now-transformed cities of his youth as well as to experience for the first time the country's southern states. The American Scene is a major work from James' final, most adventurous creative phase and offers a cultural and social critique of contemporary American society as well as a personal series of 'gathered impressions', a form of indirect yet sometimes intimate autobiography. This new edition includes detailed explanatory notes, a general introduction, a chronology, an itinerary of James' journey, a record of textual variants and rare manuscript material, appendices which include the journal James kept, texts for the two lectures he gave, and two additional essays written on his return to England.
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Editor:
Collister, Peter
Peter Collister is the author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America (2007), and the editor of Henry James's A Small Boy and Others (2011) and Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years (2011). He has published a wide range of essays on nineteenth-century English writers and Anglo-French literary links in refereed British, European and American journals.
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