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Washington Square / Henry James ; edited by Gert Buelens and Susan M. Griffin

Author
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (lxxxv, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Additional Creators
Buelens, Gert and Griffin, Susan M., 1953-
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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. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.
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9780511782268 (ebook)
9781107003897 (hardback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Aug 2022).
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