The Reverberator The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James Series

Often overlooked by modern critics, The Reverberator was a departure from Henry James' immediately preceding novels, The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima, returning to the popular 'international theme' of his earlier fiction. Its comedy of manners explores the conflicting values of American and Europeanized characters in the context of topical cultural concerns. Most notably, in its satire on popular journalism and an emerging mass-media through the scandal sheet 'The Reverberator', the novel dramatizes what James presciently saw as the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1888), provides a thorough account of the novel's sources and composition, literary and historical contexts, and extensive revision for the New York Edition (1908), as well as extensive annotation. It will be of interest to James scholars, students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture, and historians of journalism and new media.

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology; Bibliography; The Reverberator; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants 1; Textual variants 2; List of emendations; Appendix A. Sources from the world [New York]; Appendix B. Extract from James' notebooks; Appendix C. Preface to New York edition.

Richard Salmon is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds. He has published extensively on Henry James and on Victorian literature, including Henry James and the Culture of Publicity (Cambridge, 1997) and The Formation of the Victorian Literary Profession (Cambridge, 2013).