Daisy Miller (Broadview Editions)

James, Henry

ISBN 10: 155111030X / ISBN 13: 9781551110301

Published by Broadview Press, 2011

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00098042430

Synopsis:

Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes.

This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.

About the Author:

Kristin Boudreau is Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Megan Stoner Morgan is a doctoral student specializing in nineteenth-century American and British fiction at the University of Georgia.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Daisy Miller (Broadview Editions)
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good