List of Contributors
Preface
A Henry James Chronology
Introduction: The Moment of Henry James
JONATHAN FREEDMAN
1 Men, Women, and the American Way
MARTHA BANTA
2 The James Family Theatricals: Behind the Scenes
FRANCES WILSON
3 Henry James at Work: The Question of Our Texts
PHILIP HORNE
4 Henry James and the Invention of Novel Theory
DOROTHY J. HALE
5 Henry James and the Idea of Evil
ROBERT WEISBUCH
6 Queer Henry In the Cage
HUGH STEVENS
7 The Unmentionable Subject in “The Pupil”
MILLICENT BELL
8 Realism,Culture, and the Place of the Literary:
Henry James and The Bostonians
SARA BLAIR
9 Lambert Strether‘s Excellent Adventure
ERIC HARALSON
10 James’s Elusive Wings
WILLIAM STOWE
11 Henry James‘s American Dream in The Golden Bowl
MARGERY SABIN
12 Affirming the Alien: The Pragmatist Pluralism
of The American Scene
ROSS POSNOCK
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index