Portrait of a Lady: An Authoritative Text, Henry James and the Novel, Reviews and Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) - Softcover

Henry James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393043851 ISBN 13: 9780393043853

Publisher: Norton, 1975

Synopsis

Divided into three sections: An Authoritative Text, Henry James and The Novel and Criticism. The text in this Norton Critical Edition is one of James' most important novels is that of the NY Edition (1908) . It can be said though that there are two separate Portraits - the first edition of 1880-81, and the detailed revision that James made for the New York Edition. Readers of the Norton Critical Edition can read both versions, with the addition of the editor's detailed textual notes - one by a young successful author in his thirties, and the other by the master in his sixties. 755 pages

About this title

About the Author:

Robert D. Bamberg is Emeritus Professor of English at Kent State University. He previously taught at Bates College (where he was chairman of the department and Dean of the Faculty) and at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is the author of articles on British and American fiction and is editor of The Confessions of Jereboam O. Beauchamp. He is an affiliate member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and practices psychoanalysis in Cleveland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Norton
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0393043851
• ISBN 13: 9780393043853
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 755