University of Virginia Press Notes of a Son and Brother' and 'The Middle Years': A Critical Edition

This first fully annotated critical edition of Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years, this offers the reader extensive support in appreciating the demands of James’s late prose and illuminates the context in which one of literature’s most influential figures developed a characteristic voice. Review [Reviewed in tandem with A Small Boy and Others, also edited by Peter Collister] The present two-volume critical edition of these memoirs makes a crucial contribution to James studies. Footnotes--so copious they often exceed James's text on the page--provide clarification, biographical and historical context, and relevant explanatory information. Drawn from archival sources and relevant James scholarship, the notes serve as a biographical companion, and often corrective, to James's version of his life. These volumes will prove indispensable for scholars and readers of James....Highly recommended. --author of ChoiceA valuable contribution to scholarship. --author of American Literary ScholarshipCollister's editing sets a new standard for future editions of James's texts. We can now read both volumes of the autobiographies with a greatly enhanced understanding of the author's world. --author of The Henry James ReviewCollister's historical contextualizing is impressive....[he] seems to have walked in [James's] footsteps and illuminates place and history....[This] edition likely to be unsurpassed as a scholarly resource....[whose] contribution is huge and, after nearly a century, deeply welcome. --author of Nineteenth-Century ContextsIt is almost a century since Henry James's three autobiographical volumes first appeared. Only now, however, is a thoroughly researched and carefully edited critical edition becoming available. Students, scholars, and amateurs of James are greatly indebted to editor Peter Collister and to the University of Virginia Press for publishing this important new contribution to American literature. --Pierre A. Walker, co-general editor of The Complete Letters of Henry JamesThe first authoritative scholarly edition, this volume, in its extensive, discursive apparatus, counterpoints the texts of James's memoirs with what amounts to a virtual new biography of James running through Collister's invaluable and extensive annotations. First published 1914 (Notes of a Son and Brother) and 1917 (The Middle Years). --Dan Mark Fogel, eminent Henry James scholar, author of Oxford Bibliographies OnlineThis new edition of Henry James's memoirs displays scholarship at its most painstaking and brilliant. The footnotes to the text actually represent an ingenious new biography of James and a marvelous and accurate portrait of his family and his circle. Peter Collister has done us all a great favor in the way he has approached James's efforts to re-create himself. --Colm Tóibín, author of The Master About the Author <p align=""justify""> <span lang=""EN""><strong>Henry James</strong><font color=""#000000""><font face=""WarnockPro-Regular"" sie=""1""><font face=""WarnockPro-Regular"" sie=""1""><strong> </strong>(1843-1916), American novelist and critic, was an innovator in technique and a distinctive prose stylist. More than any previous writer, James refined the technique of narrating a novel from the point of view of a character, thereby laying the foundations of modern stream-of-consciousness fiction. Among his many acclaimed novels are </font></font><i><font face=""WarnockPro-It"" sie=""1""><font face=""WarnockPro-It"" sie=""1"">The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, </font></font></i></font><b><font face=""WarnockPro-Regular"" sie=""1""><font face=""WarnockPro-Regular"" sie=""1""><font color=""#000000"">and </font></font></font></b><i><font face=""WarnockPro-It"" sie=""1""><font face=""Warn