The Sacred Fount: 16 (The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, Series Number 16)
Cambridge University Press, 10/3/2019
EAN 9781107032637, ISBN10: 1107032636
Hardcover, 330 pages, 23.6 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
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. One of James's strangest works, The Sacred Fount, explores ideas of sexual desire and power in an English country house setting. The novel aroused considerable critical bewilderment and hostility on its original publication in 1901 but was retrieved by a subsequent generation of critics who found its ambiguity and stylistic elaboration an instance of James's 'mastery' and an early example of literary modernism. This is the first critical edition of James' landmark text and is supported by a full critical apparatus including introduction, notes, glossary, textual variants and bibliography. The volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
General editor's preface
General chronology of James's life and writings
Introduction
Contemporary reception of The Sacred Fount
Textual introduction
Chronology of composition and production
Bibliography
The Sacred Fount
Glossary of foreign words and phrases
Notes
Textual variants
Emendations.