A Bibliography of the Writings on Henry James by Leon Edel, With Some Annotations

A Bibliography of the Writings on Henry James by Leon Edel, With Some Annotations Compiled, with the author's assistance, by Vivian Cadbury, Somerville College, Oxford University, and by William Laskowski, Jr., University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Annotated by Adeline R. Tintner Note: in addition to the abbreviation HJ for Henry James, LE is used frequently throughout the following bibliography for Leon Edel. Annotations followed by the initials DMF in square brackets are by the editor. 1930 1. "A Note on Translations of H. James in France." Revue Anglo-Américaine, 7 (Aug.), 539-40. 2. Review of Henry James, Letters to A. C. Benson and Auguste Monod, ed. E. F. Benson. Canadian Forum, 11 (Dec), 112. 3. Letter to the Editor. Times Literary Supplement, 2 Oct., p. 782. Edel announces his project to write the history of James's playwriting . 1931 4. Henry James: Les Années Dramatiques. Paris: Jouve et CÃ-e. Doctoral dissertation that resulted in James's literary executor charging Edel with editing of the complete plays. 5. The Prefaces of Henry James. Paris: Jouve et Cie. These volumes, items 4 and 5, Leon Edel's dissertations for the French State Degree of Doctor of Letters, were printed in two editions. The first was a limited edition of 90 copies, bound in brownish-green wrappers. On the cover of Les Années Dramatiques the words "These Principale pour le Doctorat es Lettres" were printed below the title. Under the Prefaces of Henry James the subtitle was "These Complémentaire pour Ie Doctorat es Lettres." The trade edition, 300 copies bound in white wrappers , carried the titles lettered in red without allusion to the theses. Although Edel valiantly tries to determine what James meant by "form," he gets no closer to it than the rest of us, even though this early dissertation is so far the only book-length study devoted to the Prefaces and contains some observations that in spite of Edel's immaturity (he was then 24) have never been bettered, even by Blackmur's preface to the prefaces in 1934. THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW 176 SPRING, 1982 1932 6. Review of C. Hartley Grattan, The Three Jameses and Elizabeth Robins, Theatre and Friendship. Saturday Review of Literature, 9 (12 Nov.), 236. 1933 7. "The Exile of Henry James." University of Toronto Quarterly, 2 (July), 520-32. A rehash of Van Wyck Brooks and Mathew Josephson. 1939 8. "Henry James Discoveries." Times Literary Supplement, 29 July, p. 460. 1941 9. "Henry James: The War Chapter." University of Toronto Quarterly, 10 (Jan.), 125-38. 10. "A Henry James Essay." Times Literary Supplement, 24 May, pp. 251, 253. 1943 11. "Henry James and the Poets." Poetry, 62 (Sept.), 328-34. Discussion of the way various poets have picked up HJ's language, especially Auden in "At the Grave of HJ." 1947 12. Introduction to Henry James, The Other House. London: Hart-Davis, pp. vii-xxi. 13. Review of F. 0. Matthiessen, Henry James: The Major Phase. University of Toronto Quarterly, 16 (July), 424-2ΊΓ! 1948 14. "The James Revival." Atlantic Monthly, 180 (Sept.), 96-98. 15. Review of Simon Nowell-Smith, The Legend of the Master. New England Quarterly , 21 (Dec), 544-47. 1949 16. The Complete Plays of Henry James, ed. LE. Philadelphia: Lippincott; LonTHE HENRY JAMES REVIEW 177 SPRING, 1982 don: Hart-Davis; Toronto: Longmans. Contains an introductory essay "Henry James: The Dramatic Years," pp. 19-69, and nineteen prefaces, one to each play or scenario. Editor's foreword before each play. The first major work by Edel, a brilliant introduction to his biographical method in which the basic material from his French Sorbonne dissertation, Les Années Dramatiques, is developed to introduce the first complete edition of HJ's plays. It includes a reconstruction of James's dramatic years and of their meaning for the evolution of his late style. Prefigures the biographer's later style. 17. Foreword to Henry James : The Scenic Art, ed. Allan Wade. London: HartDavis ; New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, pp. v-viii. Wade's book includes LE's discovery of the important unsigned essay on the London Theatres, 1880, in addition to much information placed by...