
Confidence
Henry James(Author)
Gert Buelens(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 14. August 2025
Book
Hardback
536 pages
978-1-107-08651-7 (ISBN)
Description
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. Confidence is one of James's least-known novels, but its handling of point of view and the ethics of observing other people, its succession of often vividly-evoked settings - Siena, Baden-Baden, New York City, Paris, London - and its fascinating similarities to other of James's works make it deserving of serious attention. The story of its composition, publication and reception is also told here, illuminating how James negotiated his establishment as a major writer, including a readiness for radical revision at the manuscript stage. At its heart, Confidence offers a compelling portrait of a deracinated group of leisured Americans in a new era of global travel, tracing the twists and turns of a moral-psychological experiment in relations between the sexes.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
900 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-08651-7 (9781107086517)
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Persons
Gert Buelens edited Enacting History in Henry James (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His Henry James and the 'Aliens' (2002) won the ASN Book Prize, while his previous work on James has appeared in Modern Philology, TSLL, and PMLA. He has served as President of the Henry James Society.
Content
General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; Confidence; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; List of emendations; Appendix: extract from James's notebooks.