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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 April 2021
      11 July 2019
      ISBN:
      9780511782480
      9781107003989
      9781009662086
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511782480
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.13kg, 690 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.987kg, 694 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
      Collection:
      The Complete Fiction of Henry James
      Series:
      The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (8)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
    Collection:
    The Complete Fiction of Henry James
    Series:
    The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (8)
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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. The Bostonians is an extraordinary political and psychological drama narrating the struggle between Northern feminist Olive Chancellor and her cousin, former slaveholder and radical conservative Basil Ransom, for 'possession' of the beautiful, talented Verena Tarrant. The issues raised of the relations between the sexes, between North and South and between differing visions of 'progress' in America are as timely - and contentious - as when the novel first appeared. This fully annotated scholarly edition of one of James's most distinctive and important works features a detailed contextual introduction, full textual history and helpful explanatory annotation. It will be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.

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    '… magnificently comprehensive … also allows for a fresher and fairer appraisal of the novel's achievements.'

    Bharat Tandon Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘… one profitable way of reading The Bostonians might be as the first great vampire narrative of the fin de siècle.'

    Bharat Tandon Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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