Teaching the Short Fiction of Henry James

Kathleen McDonald is a professor of English at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, the university assessment coordinator at Norwich University and regularly participates in regional accreditations, and presents at conferences. Anne S. Jung is vice president of academic affairs, dean of the college, and associate professor of English at Maria College in Albany, New York. Her current research interests include 19th century American Romance, art and gender in the literature of Henry James, as well as the pedagogy of teaching Cultural Studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Setting the SceneKathleen McDonald“[She] is not, after all, a Comanche savage”: Reading Daisy Miller and Teaching Inclusive ExcellenceJayson Baker­Gold-Digger with a Purpose: Class Delusions and Disparities in “A ­Landscape-painter”Katherine ShloznikovaPainting “a picture out of her setting”: The Jamesian Picturesque, the Claude Mirror Effect, and the Racial and National Dynamic in The EuropeansNevena StojanovicProviding Contexts and Contextualization: Prosper Mérimée’s “La Vénus d’Ille,” James’ “The Last of the Valerii,” and The Portrait of a LadyAnne S. Jung“Bedizened in this unnatural garb”: Fashion, Rivalry, and the Supernatural in Teaching “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes”Alissa BurgerBeneath an Italian Sky: Europe and Artistic Education in “Travelling Companions” and “The Madonna of the Future”Bruno PenteadoMemory, Imagination, and the Recovery of the Past in the Present: The American Scene and “The Jolly Corner”Ronald A. BoscoThe Specter of Tradition and Liberal Agency in “Owen Wingrave”Mercedes García PalmaWhat to Do with a Dead Author: A Study of Influence Between Henry James’ “The Figure in the Carpet” and Roland Barthes’ “The Death of the Author”Jamie BowmanAbout the ContributorsIndex