Henry James and Queer Filiation

Michael Anesko is Professor of English and American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Besides serving as one of four General Editors of the ongoing Cambridge Edition of The Complete Fiction of Henry James, he is the author of five books, the most recent of which is Generous Mistakes: Incidents of Error in Henry James (2017).

• 1. Lover . . . of the Fine Amenities.- 2. An American Who Loved England.- 3. The “Emmetry”.- 4. “The Baby”.- 5. Fast & Vicious?.- 6. Das Land ohne Musik.- 7. A Network of Repressions.- 8. “Arising from Dreams of Thee”.- 9. Immortal Youth.- 10. Within the Rim.- 11. “Keeping House with a Stranger”.- 12. The Jamesian Condom.- 13. Breaches.

“Anesko traces the transatlantic gravitation of this bohemian set into James’s inner circle at a time when the author had established his literary prowess and was developing his famously baroque late style. … the most exciting insights in Henry James and Queer Filiation are those that connect this history of artists, musicians, and lovers—primarily relayed through letters—to the creation of visual culture, and those that manage also to relate these elements to the themes and style of James’s fiction.” (Elizabeth J. McLean, Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities, Vol. 1 (1), 2020)