| Description |
xxvi, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / John Carlos Rowe -- Introduction: "The Whole Chain of Relation and Responsibility": Henry James and the New York Edition / David McWhirter -- Breaking the Aura of Henry James / Ross Posnock -- Ozymandias and the Mastery of Ruins: The Design of the New York Edition / Stuart Culver -- In the House of Fiction: Henry James and the Engendering of Literary Mastery / Sara Blair -- Ambiguous Allegiances: Conflicts of Culture and Ideology in the Making of the New York Edition / Michael Anesko -- Visual Culture: The Photo Frontispieces to the New York Edition / Ira B. Nadel -- Revision, Rewriting, Rereading; or, "An Error [Not] in The Ambassadors" / Jerome McGann -- Reading James's Prefaces and Reading James / Paul B. Armstrong -- The "Grafted" Image: James on Illustration / J. Hillis Miller -- Doctoring the Text: Henry James and Revision / Julie Rivkin -- The Emotional Aftermath of the New York Edition / Carol Holly |
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New York Monumentalism and Hidden Family Corpses / Alfred Habegger -- Shame and Performativity: Henry James's New York Edition Prefaces / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- The Excluded Seven: Practice of Omission, Aesthetics of Refusal / Martha Banta -- App. A Bibliography and Publication History of the New York Edition -- App. B Chronological List of Secondary Works on the New York Edition -- App. C Henry James, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and the New York Edition: A Chronology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-320) and index |
| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Authorship.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Editors
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Publishers
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Authors and publishers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Authorship -- History -- 20th century.
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Fiction -- Publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
McWhirter, David Bruce.
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| LC no. |
95001325 |
| ISBN |
0804725640 (alk. paper) |
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