TY - BOOK ID - 101617753 TI - Washington Square AU - James, Henry AU - Buelens, Gert AU - Griffin, Susan M. PY - 2022 SN - 9781107003897 110700389X 0511782268 1009072277 9780511782268 PB - Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Social life and customs KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Children of the rich KW - Beauty, Personal KW - Young women KW - Courtship KW - Washington Square (New York, N.Y.) KW - Washington Square Park (New York, N.Y.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101617753 AB - The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history. ER -