Henry James' wryly comic novel, The Europeans (1878), gently satirizes both early nineteenth-century Boston society and the sophisticated Europeans who visited the city. This first scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction explo...

Henry James' wryly comic novel, The Europeans (1878), gently satirizes both early nineteenth-century Boston society and the sophisticated Europeans who visited the city. This first scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.