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The reverberator / Henry James ; edited by Richard Salmon

Author
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xcii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Salmon, Richard, 1965-

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology; Bibliography; The Reverberator; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants 1; Textual variants 2; List of emendations; Appendix A. Sources from the world [New York]; Appendix B. Extract from James' notebooks; Appendix C. Preface to New York edition.
Summary
"Often overlooked by modern critics, The Reverberator was a departure from Henry James' immediately preceding novels, The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima, returning to the popular 'international theme' of his earlier fiction. Its comedy of manners explores the conflicting values of American and Europeanized characters in the context of topical cultural concerns. Most notably, in its satire on popular journalism and an emerging mass-media through the scandal sheet 'The Reverberator', the novel dramatizes what James presciently saw as the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1888), provides a thorough account of the novel's sources and composition, literary and historical contexts, and extensive revision for the New York Edition (1908), as well as extensive annotation. It will be of interest to James scholars, students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture, and historians of journalism and new media"--
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ISBN
1107002702 (hardback)
9781107002708 (hardback)
Note
Reissue of a title first serialized in Britain in Macmillan's Magazines, 1888, then published as a complete volume in the same year by Macmillan and Co., London and New York.
Description based on surrogate.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Source of Acquisition
Altoona copy: Gift of: Michael Anesco; 2019.
Purchased with funds from the The Hastings Libraries Endowment ; 2018
Endowment Note
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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