|tThe text of The American --|gPreface to the New York Edition (1907) --|tThe American --|tA note on the text --|tTextual variants --|tEditor's emendations --|tInstallments of The American appearing in The Atlantic monthly --|tPage of The American (original version), as revised by Henry James (1906) --|tBackgrounds and sources --|tHenry James to Mrs. Henry James, Sr., October 13, 1869 --|tHenry James to Charles Eliot Norton, January 16, 1871 --|tHenry James to Grace Norton, January 14, 1874 --|tReview of A foregone conclusion /|rHenry James --|tReview on Notes on Paris /|rHenry James --|tHenry James to F.P. Church, December 1, 1875 --|gFrom|tParisian sketches /|rHenry James --|tHenry James to William Dean Howells, February 3, 1876 --|tHenry James to F.P. Church, February 4, 1876 --|tWilliam Dean Howells to F.P. Church, February 29, 1876 --|tHenry James to F.P. Church, March 3, 1876 --|tWilliam Dean Howells to F.P. Church, March 5, 1876 --|tHenry James to William Dean Howells, May 28, 1876 --|tHenry James to William James, July 4, 1876 --|tWilliam James to Henry James, July 5, 1876 --|tHenry James to William James, July 29, 1876 --|tHenry James to William Dean Howells, October 24, 1876 --|tHenry James to William Dean Howells, December 18, 1876 --|tHenry James to Mrs. Henry James, Sr., December 24, 1876 --|tHenry James to James Ripley Osgood, January 1, 1877 --|tHenry James to Mrs. Henry James, Sr., January 31, 1877 --|tHenry James to William Dean Howells, February 2, 1877 --|tHenry James to William Dean Howells, March 30, 1877 --|tHenry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, June 25, 1877 --|tHenry James to William James, June 28, 1877 --|tHenry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, March 22, 1878 --|tThe American Colony in France /|rFrederick Sheldon --|tHenry James to William James, May 1, 1878 --|tHenry James to William Dean Howells, July 14 (15?), 1879 --|tAmericans abroad /|rHenry James --|gFrom|tHawthorne /|rHenry James --|tHenry James to William Dean Howells, January 31, 1880 --|gFrom|tHis notebooks /|rHenry James --|tHenry James to Alice James, June 6, 1890 --|tHenry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, January 12, 1891 --|tHenry James to William James, February 6, 1891 --|tHenry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, February 18, 1891 --|tHenry James to Robert Herrick, August 7, 1907 --|tHenry James to Mrs. G.W. Prothero, September 14, 1913
505
80
|tCriticism --|tContemporary reception --|tAmerican reviews --|gFrom|tThe Nation, January 11, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe Atlantic monthly, March 1877 --|gFrom|tThe independent, May 17, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe nation, May 31, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe Atlantic monthly, July 1877 --|gFrom|tThe galaxy, July 1877 --|gFrom|tThe literary world, July 1877 --|gFrom|tScribner's, July 1877 --|gFrom|tAppleton's Journal, August 1877 --|gFrom|tThe eclectic, August 1877 --|gFrom|tThe library table, August 30, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe North American review, September 1877 --|gFrom|tThe Catholic world, December 1878 --|tEnglish reviews --|gFrom|tThe athenaeum, July 7, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe academy, July 14, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe spectator, July 21, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe Saturday review, August 18, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe graphic, September 8, 1877 --|gFrom|tThe academy, May 10, 1879 --|gFrom|tThe British quarterly review, July 1879 --|gFrom|tThe Westminster review, January 1880 --|tTwentieth-century criticism --|tA portrait rich in national ambiguities /|rLeon Edel --|tA surge of patriotic indignation /|rOscar Cargill --|tHenry James and the millionaire /|rIrving Howe --|gHenry James : the superstitious valuation of Europe /|rJames W. Tuttleton --|tThe comedy of fixed and free characters /|rRichard Poirier --|gHenry James's revision of The American /|rRoyal A. Gerrmann --|tThe revised ending of the play /|rLeon Edel
520
|aA reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others
The text reprinted in this volume is based on an examination of thefive printed versions of The American (first published in 1877) whichappeared in James's lifetime, and it is preceded by his "Preface to theNew York Edition" (1907).