
Watch and Ward
Henry James(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 15. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-1-009-66169-0 (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. While Watch and Ward has long been dismissed as an early apprentice work, it marks an important stage in James's development as a fiction writer, building upon the stories he wrote during the late 1860s and pointing, at the same time, to the works he would write during the ensuing decade and which would secure his reputation, including 'Daisy Miller', The American and The Portrait of a Lady. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand the novel's historical, cultural and literary references.
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'...both newly and fastidiously informative about the novel's contextual and compositional history.' Times Literary SupplementMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-66169-0 (9781009661690)
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Persons
JAY S. SPINA is an adjunct professor at Salem State University. He has worked as an editorial assistant on The Complete Letters of Henry James. He has also published a variorum e-text of Henry James's Watch and Ward (2006). PIERRE A. WALKER is professor of English at Salem State University. He is the author of Reading Henry James in French Cultural Contexts (1995), editor of Henry James on Culture (2004), creator of dearhenryjames.org, co-general editor of the nine volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1880 (2006-2015) and general editor emeritus of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1915 (2016-). He is a past president of the Henry James Society and, in addition to publishing on James in numerous journals and book collections, has also published on literary theory, African American literature, and Edith Wharton.
Author
Editor
Salem State University, Massachusetts
Salem State University, Massachusetts
Content
General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of Watch and Ward; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; Watch and Ward; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.