Novels 1881-1886: "Washington Square," "The Portrait of a Lady," "The Bostonians", and: Literary Criticism: "Essays on Literature," "American Writers," "English Writers", and: Literary Criticism: "French Writers, "Other European Writers," "The Prefaces to the New York Edition", and: James the Critic, and: Henry James: The Writer and His Wor

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-608
Author(s):  
James Rambeau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Portrait Of A Lady ◽  
New York Edition ◽  
Washington Square

The Editor as Hero: Henry James and the New York Edition

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Leitch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Henry James ◽  
New York Edition

Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition

1993 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Richard A. Hocks ◽  
Philip Horne
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Henry James ◽  
New York Edition

3. The James brand

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Susan L. Mizruchi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Portrait Of A Lady ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Mind ◽  
International Novels

‘The James brand’ examines how, during the period when he was introducing his brand to an Anglo-American public, Henry James honed his signature subject: plotting the fates of Americans abroad. If James was not the inventor of the international novel, he was certainly one of its most important proponents and developers. The first of James’s international novels, The American (1877), focuses on the mind of a woman; Portrait of a Lady (1881) reveals it to be an ideal register for the deep psychological transformations that became his trademark. James also wrote a major essay on literary criticism during this period, “The Art of Fiction” (1884).

The Portrait of a Lady

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry James
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
English Language ◽  
American Girl ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Portrait Of A Lady ◽  
New York Edition

‘One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.’ Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her and becomes instead a ‘house of suffocation’. Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, this is Henry James’s most poised achievement, written at the height of his fame in 1881. It is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late. This edition reproduces the revised New York Edition, with James’s own Preface.

Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition.

1992 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 382
Author(s):  
Ellen Brown ◽  
Philip Horne
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Henry James ◽  
New York Edition

Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition (review)

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
Michael Anesko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Henry James ◽  
New York Edition

(Re)Presenting Henry James: Authority and Intertextuality in the New York Edition

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-171
Author(s):  
David B. McWhirter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Henry James ◽  
New York Edition
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