caa a22 4500 386365962 CHVBK 20180307111933.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021875800004023 doi S0021875800004023 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021875800004023 Horne Philip Philip Horne is lecturer in English literature in the Department of English, University College, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England. Writing and Rewriting in Henry James [Elektronische Daten] [Philip Horne] In one of James's best-known stories, "The Middle Years” (1893), the mortally ill author Dencombe, staying at Bournemouth for the sake of what remains of his health, gets an advance copy of his latest - and almost certainly his last - novel, which is called The Middle Years. Looking over what might have been thought to be his finished and dismissed work on his clifftop bench, Dencombe revises it: Dencombe was a passionate corrector, a fingerer of style; the last thing he ever arrived at was a form final for himself. His ideal would have been to publish secretly, and then, on the published text, treat himself to the terrified revise, sacrificing always a first edition and beginning for posterity and even for the collectors, poor dears, with a second. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-12), 357-374 0021-8758 23:3<357 1989 23 AMS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800004023 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800004023 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Horne Philip Philip Horne is lecturer in English literature in the Department of English, University College, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-12), 357-374 0021-8758 23:3<357 1989 23 AMS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge