Washington Square

Henry James, Gert Buelens, Susan M. Griffin, Gert Buelens, Susan M. Griffin

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781107003897
• eBook ISBN: 9781009072274
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• General Editors’ Preface
• General Chronology of James’s Life and Writings
• Introduction
• Textual Introduction
• Chronology of Composition and Production
• Bibliography
• Washington Square
• Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases
• Notes
• Textual Variants
• List of Emendations
• Appendices