The jolly corner and other tales /
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. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903-1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirica...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | The Cambridge edition of the complete fiction of Henry James ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903-1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling ... the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (cxxiv, 566 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9780511757440 (ebook) |
