Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1 Greg W. Zacharias
Chronology of Henry James’s Life and Work 4 Jennifer Eimers
Part I Fiction and Non-Fiction 15
1 Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James’s Shorter Fiction, 1865–1878 17 Clair Hughes
2 What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study 32 Sarah Wadsworth
3 Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James’s The American 51 Wendy Graham
4 Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady 70 Peter Rawlings
5 The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation 88 Sarah Daugherty
6 “The Abysses of Silence” in The Turn of the Screw 100 Kimberly C. Reed
7 On Maisie’s Knowing Her Own Mind 121 Robert B. Pippin
8 “What woman was ever safe?” Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors 139 Anna Despotopoulou
9 Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove 156 Evelyne Ender
10 Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl 176 Sigi Jöttkandt
11 Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene 193 Gert Buelens
12 Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James 208 Philip Horne
13 What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James’s Last Words 231 Michael Anesko
14 Henry James, Cultural Critic 249 Pierre A. Walker
15 Timeliness and Henry James’s Letters 261 Greg W. Zacharias
Part II Contexts for Reading Henry James 275
16 A Brief Biography of Henry James 277 Jennifer Eimers
17 Jamesian Matter 292 Bill Brown
18 Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory 309 Natasha Hurley
19 Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys and Henry James’s The Art of the Novel 324 Denis Flannery
20 Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation 343 Donatella Izzo
21 The Others: Henry James’s Family 360 Linda Simon
22 Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James 374 Jonathan Warren
23 Henry James and the United States 390 John Carlos Rowe
24 Henry James and Britain 400 Nicola Bradbury
25 Henry James in France 416 Julie Wolkenstein
26 Henry James and Italy 434 Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
27 Henry James in the Public Sphere 456 Richard Salmon
28 James and Film 472 Susan M. Griffin
Index 490
