[1]. Essays on literature. American writers. English writers -- [[2]. French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition.
Henry James(1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted
religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent
psychologist and philosopher William James. His many works
includeWashington Square(1880),The Portrait of a Lady(1881),The
Princess Casamassima(1886),The Aspern Papers(1888),The Turn of the
Screw(1898), and three large novels of the new century,The Wings of
the Dove(1902),The Ambassadors(1903) andThe Golden Bowl(1904). He
died in London in February 1916.
Leon Edel(1907-1997), volume editor, was professor of English at
the University of Hawaii, Manoa. His five-volume biography of Henry
James received both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
Mark Wilson, associate editor of this volume, was professor of
English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
“Also, we realize, James possessed a point of view tailor-made for the vocation of literary criticism. The critic’s life, he wrote in one essay, ‘is heroic, for it is immensely vicarious. He has to understand for others.’”— The New York Times
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