{"product_id":"9780393966466","title":"The Portrait of a Lady: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe text of this Second Edition of one of Henry James's most important novels is that of the New York Edition (1908).\u003cbr\u003eIn a sense, there are two distinctly separate Portraits—the 1880-81 First Edition and the New York Edition, which James extensively revised. The editor has meticulously prepared a list of textual variants to facilitate comparative reading of the novel. Nina Baym, F. O. Matthiessen, and Anthony J. Mazzella provide differing interpretations of James's revision process.\u003cbr\u003eHenry James and the Novel culls autobiographical excerpts from James's other writings—his Notebooks, the intentionally autobiographical A Small Boy and Others and Notes of a Son and Brother, and the travel books Italy Revisited, A Roman Holiday, and Roman Rides.\u003cbr\u003eContemporary Reviews and Criticism provides both chronological and critical perspective on The Portrait of a Lady. Four reviews from 1882 outline the novel's initial critical reception.\u003cbr\u003eSeven important essays from the period 1954-1991 provide a wide range of critical responses by Dorothy Van Ghent, William H. Gass, Laurence B. Holland, Charles Feidelson, Louis Auchincloss, William Veeder, and Millicent Bell.\u003cbr\u003eBibliographical Aids includes judiciously selected secondary works on James from the wealth of material published yearly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008531644656,"sku":"9780393966466","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393966466_p0.jpg?v=1763698233","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393966466","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}