The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878-1880

Informationen zum Autor Henry James (1843 1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, and travel essays and is most famous for his many novels, which include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State University. He is the editor of Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene (Nebraska, 1999). Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English at Creighton University, where he directs the Center for Henry James Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James and coeditor of Tracing Henry James. Michael Anesko is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship. Klappentext Containing letters written between October 3, 1878, and August 30, 1879, this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James establishing control of his writing career and finding confidence in himself not only as a professional author on both sides of the Atlantic but also as an important social figure in London. In this volume of 114 letters, of which 58 are published for the first time, we see James learning to negotiate, pitting one publisher against another, and working to secure simultaneous publication in the United States and England. He establishes a working relationship with Frederick Macmillan and with the Macmillan publishing house, cultivates reviewers, basks in the success and notoriety of his novella Daisy Miller, and visits Alfred Tennyson and George Eliot, among others. James also produces essays on political subjects and continues to publish reviews and travel essays. Perhaps most important, James negotiates terms for and begins planning The Portrait of a Lady. Zusammenfassung Containing letters written between October 3! 1878! and August 30! 1879! this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James establishing control of his writing career and finding confidence in himself not only as a professional author on both sides of the Atlantic but also as an important social figure in London. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Real Career, the Larger Success, by Michael AneskoSymbols and AbbreviationsChronologyErrata1878October 3To William Ernest HenleyOctober 4To Alice JamesOctober 4To Thomas Sergeant Perry October 6 To William Ernest HenleyOctober 6To Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord HoughtonOctober 9To Elizabeth BoottOctober 11To Frederick Macmillan October 11, 18 or 25 To William Ernest HenleyOctober 18To Henry James Sr.October 24To Henry James Sr.October 27To Mary Walsh JamesOctober 27To Frederick MacmillanOctober 30To Elizabeth BoottNovember 9To Richard von HoffmannNovember 14To William JamesNovember 17To Charles Eliot NortonNovember 17To Mary Walsh JamesNovember 17To John Foster Kirk November 17? To Frederick MacmillanNovember 17To Whitelaw ReidNovember 17To Elizabeth BoottNovember 24To Henry James Sr.December 8To Frederick MacmillanDecember 9To Alice JamesDecember 10To Henrietta Heathorn HuxleyDecember 21To Moncure Daniel Conway December 25 To Elizabeth BoottDecember 29To William D. HertzDecember 29To William Dean Howells December 31 January 1 To Alice James1879January 4, 5 To Grace NortonJanuary 8To James Payn and Louisa Edlin Payn January 13To James BryceJanuary 15To Julian HawthorneJanuary 18To Mary Walsh JamesJanuary 19To Frederick Macmillan January 20 To Frederick Macmillan January 21 To Edward Smyth PigottJanuary 22To Julian HawthorneJanuary 22To Frederick MacmillanJanuary 31To Mary Walsh JamesFebruary 5To William Ernest HenleyFebruary 11To Elizabeth BoottFebruary 16To George GroveFebruary 16, 17To Alice James February 17 To Frederick MacmillanFebruary18To Frederick MacmillanFebruary20To Katherine Fea...

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Henry James (1843-1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, and travel essays and is most famous for his many novels, which include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl.

Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State University. He is the editor of Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene (Nebraska, 1999).
Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English at Creighton University, where he directs the Center for Henry James Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James and coeditor of Tracing Henry James. Michael Anesko is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship.

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Containing letters written between October 3, 1878, and August 30, 1879, this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James establishing control of his writing career and finding confidence in himself not only as a professional author on both sides of the Atlantic but also as an important social figure in London.
In this volume of 114 letters, of which 58 are published for the first time, we see James learning to negotiate, pitting one publisher against another, and working to secure simultaneous publication in the United States and England. He establishes a working relationship with Frederick Macmillan and with the Macmillan publishing house, cultivates reviewers, basks in the success-and notoriety-of his novella Daisy Miller, and visits Alfred Tennyson and George Eliot, among others. James also produces essays on political subjects and continues to publish reviews and travel essays. Perhaps most important, James negotiates terms for and begins planning The Portrait of a Lady.

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