JAY S. SPINA is an adjunct professor at Salem State University. He has worked as an editorial assistant on The Complete Letters of Henry James. He has also published a variorum e-text of Henry James's Watch and Ward (2006). PIERRE A. WALKER is professor of English at Salem State University. He is the author of Reading Henry James in French Cultural Contexts (1995), editor of Henry James on Culture (2004), creator of dearhenryjames.org, co-general editor of the nine volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1880 (2006–2015) and general editor emeritus of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1915 (2016–). He is a past president of the Henry James Society and, in addition to publishing on James in numerous journals and book collections, has also published on literary theory, African American literature, and Edith Wharton.

• General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of Watch and Ward; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; Watch and Ward; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

'…both newly and fastidiously informative about the novel's contextual and compositional history.' Times Literary Supplement

JAY S. SPINA is an adjunct professor at Salem State University. He has worked as an editorial assistant on The Complete Letters of Henry James. He has also published a variorum e-text of Henry James's Watch and Ward (2006). PIERRE A. WALKER is professor of English at Salem State University. He is the author of Reading Henry James in French Cultural Contexts (1995), editor of Henry James on Culture (2004), creator of dearhenryjames.org, co-general editor of the nine volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1880 (2006–2015) and general editor emeritus of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1915 (2016–). He is a past president of the Henry James Society and, in addition to publishing on James in numerous journals and book collections, has also published on literary theory, African American literature, and Edith Wharton.

• General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of Watch and Ward; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; Watch and Ward; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

'…both newly and fastidiously informative about the novel's contextual and compositional history.' Times Literary Supplement

JAY S. SPINA is an adjunct professor at Salem State University. He has worked as an editorial assistant on The Complete Letters of Henry James. He has also published a variorum e-text of Henry James's Watch and Ward (2006). PIERRE A. WALKER is professor of English at Salem State University. He is the author of Reading Henry James in French Cultural Contexts (1995), editor of Henry James on Culture (2004), creator of dearhenryjames.org, co-general editor of the nine volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1880 (2006–2015) and general editor emeritus of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1915 (2016–). He is a past president of the Henry James Society and, in addition to publishing on James in numerous journals and book collections, has also published on literary theory, African American literature, and Edith Wharton.

• General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of Watch and Ward; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; Watch and Ward; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

'…both newly and fastidiously informative about the novel's contextual and compositional history.' Times Literary Supplement