Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire

NICOLAS BUCHELE teaches English in Bangkok, and published essays and reviews on Vladamir Nabokov, Lawrence Durrell and Thomas Mann RICHARD ELLMANN one of the century's greatest biographers, published lives of Joyce, Wilde and Yeats SUSAN E. GUNTER Associate Professor of English at Westminster College of Salt Lake City STEVEN H. JOBE Associate Professor of English at Hanover College, Indiana DAVID VAN LEER Professor of English at the University of California ROBERT K. MARTIN teaches American literature, poetry and gay studies at Concordia University, Montreal SHELDON MI. NOVICK Scholar in Residence at the Vermont Law School LELANDS S. PERSON. JR Professor of English and Chair of the Department at The University of Alabama at Birmingham CHERYL B. TORSNEY Lecturer in English at West Virginia University GREGORY WOODS Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University

• Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction; S.M.Novick James Among the Aesthetes; R.Ellmann Henry James's Permanent Adolescence; J.R.Bradley The Art of Friendship in Roderick Hudson; G.Woods An Exchange of Gifts in The American; C.B.Torsney Failed Heterosexuality in The Portrait of a Lady; R.K.Martin A World of Female Friendship: The Bostonians; D.Van Leer Homo-Erotic Desire in the Tales of Writers and Artists; L.S.Person.Jr Dearly Beloved Friends: James's Letters to Younger Men; S.Gunter and S.Jobe Renunciation in the Late Novels; N.Buchele Index

"... the cumulative effect of the essays is greater knowledge and therefore greater understanding." - Choice"... the essays collected in this volume reveal a rich dimension to James's life and work that has too long been ignored." - Boston Book Review