The Collected Letters of Henry James (forthcoming)

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Database Language: English

The Center for Henry James Studies, Creighton University

Greg W. Zacharias and Pierre A. Walker, General Editors

Henry James's major influence on American literature and culture is represented in his letters to over 1,000 individuals. But only about 25% of his letters are in print today. His talents as an observer and reporter of American, British, French, and Italian cultures of the later nineteenth century, in combination with the extraordinary range of individuals with whom he corresponded, make his letters immensely useful for historians, biographers, cultural critics, and literary scholars. Thus, the collected letters will constitute a unique and significant resource for students, teachers, and scholars of Henry James, and also of American and European history and culture from the later nineteenth century.

The University of Nebraska Press will publish the letters in print in volumes of approximately 75 letters each, with individual textual commentary, informational notes and front matter.

The InteLex electronic edition will be issued in annual updates beginning in 2007. The first release will contain letters with annotation and a further group of lightly annotated and unannotated letters in beta release. In the upgrades to follow, letters previously issued in beta will receive full annotation and new letters will be added both with and without annotation. In this way, scholars will have a continually expanding group of primary texts available for research in expedited fashion.

In addition, the InteLex electronic edition will include appendices with James family primary materials and with scholarly resources which will aid in research with the collected letters.

General Editors:

Greg W. Zacharias is Professor of English at Creighton University and
Director of the Center for Henry James Studies.

Pierre A. Walker is Professor of English at Salem State College.

License Pricing

James		CD-ROM	Web Server	SGML	Credit
Individual		$150	n/a	n/a	n/a
Institutional		$375	n/a	n/a	n/a
Campus-wide		$750	$750	$750	n/a
ISBN#	Windows	1-57085-806-3	1-57085-856-x
	Macintosh	1-57085-831-4

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