The Portrait of a Lady
Published on 24. March 2021
978-1-316-44679-9 (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. Widely considered James's first great work of fiction and highly innovative in its narrative techniques, The Portrait of a Lady follows the story of an ardent, idealistic American heroine, Isabel Archer, in a cosmopolitan Europe. It explores individual freedom amidst confining circumstance, romantic choice, and the consequences of disillusionment and betrayal. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1882), provides an authoritative text of one of James's finest long novels, with extensive annotations, a detailed textual history and an analysis of the reasons for its long-held popular appeal. It will be of particular interest not only to James scholars, but also book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.
Reviews / Votes
'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Frances Wilson, The Times Literary SupplementMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
4 Halftones, unspecified; 4 Halftones, black and white
File size
5,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-316-44679-9 (9781316446799)
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Henry James | Michael Anesko
The Portrait of a Lady
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05/2025
Cambridge University Press
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Henry James | Michael Anesko
The Portrait of a Lady
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05/2016
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Michael Anesko is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught since 1993. The recipient of several prestigious academic fellowships, including those from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History, he is the author of four books, the most recent of which, Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship, was published in 2012.
Content
General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Portrait of a Lady; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; List of emendations; Appendices.
