Companion to Henry James

Greg W. Zacharias is professor of English and director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is Co-general Editor with Pierre A. Walker of The Complete Letters of Henry James (Nebraska).

• Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Greg W. ZachariasChronology of Henry James’s Life and Work 4Jennifer EimersPart I Fiction and Non-Fiction 151 Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James’s Shorter Fiction, 1865–1878 17Clair Hughes2 What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study 32Sarah Wadsworth3 Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James’s The American 51Wendy Graham4 Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady 70Peter Rawlings5 The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation 88Sarah Daugherty6 “The Abysses of Silence” in The Turn of the Screw 100Kimberly C. Reed7 On Maisie’s Knowing Her Own Mind 121Robert B. Pippin8 “What woman was ever safe?” Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors 139Anna Despotopoulou9 Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove 156Evelyne Ender10 Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl 176Sigi Jöttkandt11 Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene 193Gert Buelens12 Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James 208Philip Horne13 What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James’s Last Words 231Michael Anesko14 Henry James, Cultural Critic 249Pierre A. Walker15 Timeliness and Henry James’s Letters 261Greg W. ZachariasPart II Contexts for Reading Henry James 27516 A Brief Biography of Henry James 277Jennifer Eimers17 Jamesian Matter 292Bill Brown18 Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory 309Natasha Hurley19 Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys and Henry James’s The Art of the Novel 324Denis Flannery20 Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation 343Donatella Izzo21 The Others: Henry James’s Family 360Linda Simon22 Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James 374Jonathan Warren23 Henry James and the United States 390John Carlos Rowe24 Henry James and Britain 400Nicola Bradbury25 Henry James in France 416Julie Wolkenstein26 Henry James and Italy 434Rosella Mamoli Zorzi27 Henry James in the Public Sphere 456Richard Salmon28 James and Film 472Susan M. GriffinIndex 490

"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) "A Companion to Henry James is highly recommended for all libraries collecting on Anglo-American literature and culture." (Reference Reviews, 2009)“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.’” (Choice Reviews, June 2009)