Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information the cambridge edition of the complete fiction of HENRY JAMES © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information the cambridge edition of the complete fiction of HENRY JAMES general editors Michael Anesko, Pennsylvania State University Tamara L. Follini, University of Cambridge Philip Horne, University College London Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge advisory board Martha Banta, University of California, Los Angeles Ian F. A. Bell, Keele University Gert Buelens, Universiteit Gent Susan M. Grifn, University of Louisville Julie Rivkin, Connecticut College John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Yale University Greg Zacharias, Creighton University © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information the cambridge edition of the complete fiction of HENRY JAMES 1 Roderick Hudson 23 A Landscape Painter and Other 2 The American Tales, 1864–1869 3 Watch and Ward 24 A Passionate Pilgrim and Other 4 The Europeans Tales, 1869–1874 5 Condence 25 Daisy Miller and Other Tales, 6 Washington Square 1874–1879 7 The Portrait of a Lady 26 The Siege of London and Other 8 The Bostonians Tales, 1879–1884 9 The Princess Casamassima 27 The Aspern Papers and Other 10 The Reverberator Tales, 1888–1891 11 The Tragic Muse 28 The Lesson of the Master and 12 The Other House Other Tales, 1892–1894 13 The Spoils of Poynton 29 The Middle Years and Other Tales, 14 What Maisie Knew 1895–1898 15 The Awkward Age 30 The Turn of the Screw and Other 16 The Sacred Fount Tales, 1895–1898 17 The Wings of the Dove 31 The Beast in the Jungle and Other 18 The Ambassadors Tales, 1899–1903 19 Th e Golden Bowl 32 The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 20 The Outcry 1903–1910 21 The Sense of the Past 33 The Prefaces 22 The Ivory Tower 34 The Notebooks © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information HENRY JAMES The Bostonians edited by DANIEL KARLIN © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. 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A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library. isbn 978-1-107-00398-9 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information CONTENTS Acknowledgements page viii List of Abbreviations x General Editors’ Preface xiii General Chronology of James’s Life and Writings xx Introduction xxvii Textual Introduction cxv Chronology of Composition and Production cxxiv Bibliography cxxx The Bostonians 1 Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases 393 Notes 396 Textual Variants 515 Emendations 539 Appendices 543 A Extract from James’s Notebook Entry of 9 Feb. 1882, on The Death of His Mother 545 B ‘The Solidarity of the Sex’ 547 C James’s Proposal for The Bostonians 550 D Henry James: Extract from Letter to William James on the ‘Peabody Affair’ 553 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol supported this project with generous research leave and funding for attendance at conferences held by the European Society of Jamesian Studies (Paris, 2010), the Henry James Society (London, 2012) and the American Literature Association (Boston, 2016). I am deeply indebted to Philip Horne, who helped me at every turn with his knowledge of all things Jamesian, and in particular pointed me in the direction of writings (stories, articles, letters) that I would otherwise have overlooked. As my principal contact on the General Editors’ team, he was by turns encouraging and critical, and always in a way that moved the pro- ject forward. Adrian Poole and Tamara Follini also kept me up to the mark, and I received valuable information and advice from Michael Anesko and Greg Zacharias, especially regarding James’s relations with his British and American publishers. Many colleagues in Bristol and elsewhere have shared their knowledge of texts and contexts with me over a period of several years, and the notes in particular have been enriched by their suggestions. The Bostonians is as allusive as – a Henry James novel; no editor could begin to trace its echoes, quotations, parallels and analogies without such help. Needless to say, any errors and omissions are my responsibility. Samantha Matthews laid the foundations of this edition by compiling the essential list of resources – historical, bibliographical and critical – needed to get it under way, and by shaping my thoughts as to the signicance of James’s sense of place – especially his very ‘partial portrait’ of the city of Boston itself. Jeffrey Gutierrez at the Editorial Institute in Boston enhanced my knowledge of the early reviews of the novel, and also drew my attention to the article on ‘The Solidarity of the Sex’ in the Boston Daily Globe which is reproduced in Appendix B. I owe a debt of gratitude and admiration of another order to my mentor in American literary history, Stephen Fender. He made me, at University viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information acknowledgements College London, a teacher of American literature and then encouraged me to begin to study the nineteenth-century writers I have always loved. The Bostonians featured in many of our conversations as an extraordinary sum- mative statement of the legacy of New England to American modernity. My part in this book is dedicated to him. ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information ABBREVIATIONS 1886 Henry James, The Bostonians (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1886) A Philip Horne (ed.), Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others; Notes of a Son and Brother; The Middle Years; Other Autobiographical Writings (New York: Library of America, 2016) AF Janet Beer, Anne-Marie Ford and Katherine Joslin (ed.), American Feminism: Key Source Documents 1848–1920, 4 vols. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2004) AJ Ruth Bernard Yeazell (ed.), The Death and Letters of Alice James (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981) AS Henry James, The American Scene (London: Chapman and Hall, 1907) CFHJ The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James CLHJ Pierre A. Walker and Greg. W. Zacharias (ed.), Collected Letters of Henry James (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006–) CN Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers (ed.), The Complete Notebooks of Henry James (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) CS Henry James, Complete Stories, 5 vols. (New York: Library of America): Vol. I: 1864–1874, ed. Jean Strouse (1999); Vol. II: 1874–1884, ed. William L. Vance (1999); Vol. III: 1884– 1891, ed. Edward Said (1999); Vol. IV: 1892–1898, ed. David Bromwich and John Hollander (1996); Vol. V: 1898–1910, ed. Denis Donoghue (1996). FM Michael Anesko, “Friction with the Market”: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00398-9 — The Bostonians Henry James , Edited by Daniel Karlin Frontmatter More Information abbreviations HJL Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James Letters, 4 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; London: Macmillan, 1974–84) HJ & HM Rayburn S. Moore (ed.), The Correspondence of Henry James and the House of Macmillan, 1877–1914 (London: Macmillan, 1993) LC1 Henry James, Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature; American Writers; English Writers (New York: Library of America, 1984) LC2 Literary Criticism: European Writers; Prefaces to the New York Edition (New York: Library of America, 1984) Lewis R.