The text reprinted in this volume is based upon an examination of the five printed versions of The American (first published in 1877) which appeared in James's lifetime, and it is preceded by his Preface to the New York Edition (1907). The textual history of the novel is traced in a note on the text; a list of substantive variants and emendations; a facsimile manuscript page showing James's method of revision; and a list of the installments of the novel as they appeared in The Atlantic.
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目录
Preface
The Text of The American
Preface to the New York Edition (1907)
The American
A Note on the Text
Textual Variants
Editor's Emendations
Installments of The American Appearing m
The Atlantic Monthly
Page of The American (original version), as revised by
Henry James (19o6)
Backgrounds and Sources
Henry James to Mrs. Henry James, Sr.,
October 13, 1869
Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton,
January 16, 1871
Henry James to Grace Norton, January 14,1874
Henry James·Review of A Foregone Conclusion
Henry James·Review of Notes on Paris
Henry James to F. P. Church, December 1, 1875
Henry James·From Parisian Sketches
Henry James to William Dean Howells,
February 3, 1876
Henry James to F. P. Church, February 4, 1876
William Dean HoweUs to F. P. Church,
February 29, 1876
Henry James to F. P. Church, March 3, 1876
William Dean Howells to F. P. Church,
March 5, 1876
Henry James to William Dean Howells,
May 28, 1876
Henry James to William James, July 4, 1876
William James to Henry James, July 5, 1876
Henry James to William James, july 29,1876
Henry James to William Dean Howells,
October 24, 1876
Henry James to William Dean Howells,
December 18, 1876
Henry James to Mrs. Henry James, Sr.,
December 24, 1876
Henry James to James Ripley Osgood,
January 1, 1877
Henry James to Mrs. Henry James, Sr.,
January 31, 1877
Henry James to William Dean Howells,
February 2, 1877
Henry James to William Dean Howells,
March 3o, 1877
Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry,
June 25, 1877
Henry James to William James, June 28,1877
Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry,
March 22, 1878
Frederick Sheldon·The American Colony
in France
Henry James to William James, May x, 1878
Henry James to William Dean Howells,
July 14 (157), 1879
Henry James·Americans Abroad
Henry James·From Hawthorne
Henry James to William Dean Howells,
January 31, 1880
Henry James·From His Notebooks
Henry James to Alice James, June 6,189o
Henry James to Edmund Gosse, January 3,1891
Henry James to Mrs. Hugh Bell, January 8, 1891
Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson,
January 12, 1891
Henry James to William James, February 6, 1891
Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson,
February 18, 1891
Henry James to Robert Herrick, August 7, 1907
Henry James to Mrs. G. W. Prothero,
September 14, 1913
Criticism
Contemporary Reception
AMERICAN REVIEWS
From The Nation, January 11, 1877
From The Atlantic Monthly, March 1877
From The Independent, May 17, 1877
From The Nation, May 31, 1877
From The Atlantic Monthly, July 1877
From The Galaxy, July 1877
From The Literary World, July 1877
From Scribner's, July 1877
From Appleton's Journal, August 1877
From The Eclectic, August 1877
From The Library Table, August 30, 1877
From The North American Review,
September 1877
From The Catholic World, December 1878
ENGLISH REVIEWS
From The Athenaeum, July 7, 1877
From The Academy, July 14, 1877
From The Spectator, July 21, 1877
From The Saturday Review, August 18, 1877
From The Graphic, September 8, 1877
From The Academy, May 10, 1879
From The British Quarterly Review, July 1879
From The Westminster Review, January 1880
Twentieth-Century Criticism
Leon Edel·[A Portrait Rich in National
Ambiguities]
Oscar Cargill·[A Surge of Patriotic Indignation]
Irving Howe·Henry James and the Millionaire
James W. Tuttleton·Henry James: The
Superstitious Valuation of Europe
Richard Poirier·[The Comedy of Fixed and
Free Characters]
Royal A. Gettmann·Henry James's Revision
of The American
Leon Edel·[The Revised Ending of the Play]
Selected Bibliography