The Sacred Fount

by Henry James, T. J. Lustig (Editor)

Overview

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. One of James's strangest works, The Sacred Fount, explores ideas of sexual desire and power in an English country house setting. The novel aroused considerable critical bewilderment and hostility on its original publication in 1901 but was retrieved by a subsequent generation of critics who found its ambiguity and stylistic elaboration an instance of James's 'mastery' and an early example of literary modernism. This is the first critical edition of James' landmark text and is supported by a full critical apparatus including introduction, notes, glossary, textual variants and bibliography. The volume 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781009662093
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2025
Series:	The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

T. J. Lustig is Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He is the author of Henry James and the Ghostly (Cambridge, 1995) and editor of The Turn of the Screw (1992).

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editor's preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of The Sacred Fount; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Sacred Fount; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.