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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 1(The Complete Letters of Henry James)

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 1(The Complete Letters of Henry James)


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Recipient of the "Approved Edition" seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a remarkably wide range of topics-from James's own life and literary projects to broader questions on art, literature, and criticism-this edition is an indispensable resource for students of James and of American and English literature, culture, and criticism as well as for research libraries throughout North America and Europe and for scholars who specialize in James, the European novel, and modern literature. This volume is the first of three to include James's letters from 1872 to 1876.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Millicent Bell Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1872 May 20 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James May 23 To Mary Walsh James May 24 To Grace Norton May 29 To Henry James Sr. June 1 To Charles Eliot Norton June 4 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James June 11, 12, 13 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James June 19, 20 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James June 22 To Grace Norton June 28, 29 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James July 2 To Elizabeth Boott July 5, 6 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James July 13 To Mary Walsh James July 14 To Charles Eliot Norton July 21 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James July 24, 28 To William James July 28 To Henry James Sr. July 28 To Grace Norton August 5; misdated August 14 To Mary Walsh James August 8 To Grace Norton August 11 To Henry James Sr. August 13 To Elizabeth Boott August 18 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James August 25, 26 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James August 31, September 3 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 9 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 11 To Charles Eliot Norton September 15, 16 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 19 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 22, 28 To William James September 29 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James October 10 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James October 28 To Alice James early November To Henry James Sr. November 5 To Grace Norton November 16 To Elizabeth Boott November 19 To Charles Eliot Norton December 1, 2; misdated November 31, December 1 To William James December 9 To Henry James Sr. December 14 To Elizabeth Boott December 14 To Wendell Phillips Garrison December 16 To Alice James December 25 To Henry James Sr. December 29 To Mary Walsh James 1873 January 1 To Thomas Sergeant Perry January 8 To William James January 8 To Henry James Sr. January 15 To Grace Norton January 19 To Henry James Sr. January 24 To Thomas Sergeant Perry January 25April 2 To Elizabeth Boott January 26, 27 To Mary Walsh James February 1 To Henry James Sr. February 10 To Alice James February 17 To Mary Walsh James February 18 To Jane Norton March 4 To Henry James Sr. March 5 To Grace Norton March 13 To Charles Eliot Norton March 24 To Mary Walsh James March 28; misdated February 28 To Henry James Sr. March 31 To Charles Eliot Norton April 9 To William James April 25, 26 To Alice James April 26 To Elizabeth Boott May 4 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James May 8 To Grace Norton May 9, 11 To Sarah Butler Wister May 19 To William James May 23 To Elizabeth Boott May 27 To Mary Walsh James May 31 To William James June 8, 11 To Alice James June 12, 13 1872; misdated June 11 To Elizabeth Boott June 18 To William James June 22 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James June 22 To William Dean Howells June 23 To Thomas Sergeant Perry June 29 To Henry James Sr. July 8 To Mary Lucinda Holton James Biographical Register Genealogies General Editors' Note Works Cited Index

About the Author :
Henry James (1843–1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, 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. American born, he spent considerable time in England and eventually became a British subject. When he died he left behind more than ten thousand letters. Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State College. 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 and the founder and director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is the author of Henry James and the Morality of Fiction and editor of A Companion to Henry James.

Review :
"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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803222250
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: The Complete Letters of Henry James
  • Weight: 1102 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0803222254
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Volume 1
  • Width: 159 mm


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