The Reverberator
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- Invalid date
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780511756597
- 9781107002708
- 9781009655538
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.7kg, 392 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.568kg, 394 Pages
- Subjects:
- Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
- Collection:
- The Complete Fiction of Henry James
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- Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
- Collection:
- The Complete Fiction of Henry James
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Book description
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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