The Awkward Age

by James, Henry; Jones, Vivien

• ISBN13: 9780192837042
• ISBN10: 0192837044
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2099-11-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Written at the end of the 1890's, when issues such as female sexuality and the education of women were in fierce debate, James's novel enacts the tension between various views of women and also of an aristocracy which was fading. This novel anticipates the experimental fiction of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. The text is that of the first edition in book form, published in 1899. Most other existing texts are based on the earlier serial version.

Table of Contents

The Awkward Age	p. i
Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xxii
Bibliography	p. xxiii
Chronology of Henry James	p. xxv
Preface	p. xxix
Lady Julia	p. 1
Little Aggie	p. 25
Mr Longdon	p. 79
Mr Cashmore	p. 104
The Duchess	p. 134
Mrs Brook	p. 186
Mitchy	p. 223
Tishy Grendon	p. 256
Vanderbank	p. 293
Nanda	p. 329
Explanatory Notes	p. 367
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