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

"This book, though, amply repays reading as a whole and in order, an achievement for a volume comprising twenty-eight separate essays. The whole hangs together and enriches each of the parts, leaving its reader enriched and encouraged to return to the essays to review (or revise, an important Jamesian term) facets of essays now highlighted by others." (English Studies, 2011) <p>"A Companion to Henry James is highly recommended for all libraries collecting on Anglo-American literature and culture." (<i>Reference Reviews</i>, 2009)</p> <p>“Lovers of Henry James will be thrilled with this collection, which, as Zacharias notes in his introduction, aims to ‘represent the diversity and richness of James studies today.’” (<i>Choice Reviews</i>, June 2009)</p> <p> </p> <br /> <br />

<p><b>Greg W. Zacharias </b>is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University, USA. He is co-general editor with Pierre A. Walker of <i>The Complete Letters of Henry James</i> (2006&#8211) and Executive Director of the Henry James Society.</p>

<p><B>A COMPANION TO</B> <B>HENRY JAMES</B> <p>“Highly recommended for all libraries collecting on Anglo-American literature and culture.”<br> <b>Reference Reviews</b> <p>“The whole hangs together and enriches each of the parts, leaving its reader enriched and encouraged to return to the essays to review (or revise, an important Jamesian term) facets of essays now highlighted by others.”<br> <b>English Studies</b> <p>Written by some of the best known and distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative text provides recent scholarship on James’s writings. Read together, the chapters of this <i>Companion</i> map the direction of contemporary James studies. Taken separately, each one offers a concise, contemporary reference to the most extensively studied writings and critiques in the field. <p>This text is organized into two sections. The first part of the volume presents James’s most frequently read fiction and non-fiction. Chapters in the second section outline current approaches to the reading and teaching of James’s writings. Additionally, special attention is given to understanding James in national contexts &#8211 American, English, French, and Italian &#8211 and to understanding his work in terms of the cultures which informed his life and writing.

<p>“Lovers of Henry James will be thrilled with this collection, which, as Zacharias notes in his introduction, aims to ‘represent the diversity and    richness of James studies today.’” (<i>Choice Reviews</i>, June 2009)</p> <p>"This book, though, amply repays reading as a whole and in order, an achievement for a volume comprising twenty-eight separate essays. The whole hangs together and enriches each of the parts, leaving its reader enriched and encouraged to return to the essays to review (or revise, an important Jamesian term) facets of essays now highlighted by others." (English Studies, 2011)</p> <p>"A Companion to Henry James is highly recommended for all libraries collecting on Anglo-American literature and culture." (<i>Reference Reviews</i>, 2009)</p>

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