Wings Of The Dove Nce 2E Pa

by Crowley,J. Donald

• ISBN13: 9780393978810
• ISBN10: 0393978818
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-07
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novel#xE2;#x80;#x99;s textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel, both in 1902 and in1909. "The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition, includes selections from James#xE2;#x80;#x99;s notebooks, letters, travel books, and autobiographical writings, which illuminate his conception and assessment of The Wings of the Dove. "Criticism" reflects the lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978. Eleven essays are included, seven of them new to the Second Edition, including Anthony J. Mazzella#xE2;#x80;#x99;s piece on film adaptation. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to the New York Edition (1909)	p. 3
The Wings of the Dove	p. 21
Textual Appendix	p. 409
Editors' Critical Commentary	p. 445
Henry James: From His Notebooks	p. 460
Henry James: From His Letters	p. 467
To William Dean Howells (September 12, 1902)	p. 467
To Mrs. Cadwalader Jones (October 23, 1902)	p. 468
To H. G. Wells (November 15, 1902)	p. 469
To William Dean Howells (December 11, 1902)	p. 470
To Mrs. G. W. Prothero (September 14, 1913)	p. 471
To Mrs. William James (March 29, 1914)	p. 472
To Mrs. Richard W. Gilder (September 2, 1914)	p. 472
From William James (Fall 1902)	p. 473
To William James (Fall 1902)	p. 474
Henry James: From His Preface to The Ambassadors	p. 474
Henry James: From Italian Hours	p. 475
St. Mark's	p. 475
The Venetian People	p. 475
Relation of Art to Life in Venice	p. 476
The Vast Mausoleum with a Turnstile at the Door	p. 476
The Resident Palaces of Venice	p. 477
The Poetry of Misfortune	p. 478
Three Venetian Sisters	p. 479
Henry James: From Notes of a Son and Brother	p. 480
The Character of Minnie Temple	p. 480
Memories of Cultural Innocence	p. 482
Minnie as Heroine	p. 482
The Death of Minnie Temple	p. 484
Henry James: From "Is There a Life After Death?"	p. 487
Mr. Henry James's Later Work	p. 497
Dreams of the Soul in Action	p. 501
The Lesson of Spiritual Beauty	p. 505
From The Expense of Vision	p. 514
The Abyss of Language in The Wings of the Dove	p. 525
"A Circle of Petticoats": The Feminization of Merton Densher	p. 535
Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture	p. 548
Henry James and the Phenomenal Reader: Consciousness and the Variation of Style in The Wings of the Dove	p. 562
Henry James Made Carnal: Wings of the Dove	p. 578
"This web of subtle complexities": The Hossein Amini-Iain Softley Film Adaptation of The Wings of the Dove	p. 581
The Wings of Henry James	p. 613
Henry James: A Chronology	p. 621
Selected Bibliography	p. 623
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