The Outcry

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. The Outcry James''s last completed novel is an ironic depiction of the contemporary art market in which wealthy Americans are plundering British-owned treasures. James adapted the work originally written as a play into novel form with great success. This edition based on the work''s first book appearance in 1911 reconstructs the novel''s literary cultural and historical contexts includes extensive annotation and gives a detailed textual history. In exploring the process of adaptation it allows particular insight into James''s skills as a novelist. The volume will be of interest to James scholars art and theatre historians and students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature while also contributing to the developing field of adaptation studies.