Henry James: A Collection of Critical Essays.

by Leon Edel

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Leon Edel, Joseph Conrad, Max Beerbohm, Ezra Pound, Edith Wharton, Percy Lubbock, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, E. M. Forster, William Troy, Pelham Edgar, Stephen Spender, Graham Greene, Austin Warren, Adeline Tintner, and Irving Howe--all dealing with the biography and literary work of Henry James. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. Topics covered include an appreciation, the ghost stories, "The Ambassadors,""The Essential Novelist?" the private universe of Henry James, symbolic imagery, and "The Political Vocation." A chronology of important dates in James' life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a selected bibliography, which also lists James' finished and unfinished novels and his other writings, complete the volume.

185 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1964

About the author

Joseph Leon Edel was a American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. Edel taught English and American literature at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) from 1932 until 1934, New York University from 1953 until 1972, and at University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1972 until 1978. From 1944 to 1952, he worked as a reporter and feature writer for the left-wing New York newspapers PM and the Daily Compass.