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A Companion to Henry James Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture A Companion to Henry James Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fi elds of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the fi eld. Recently published: 37. A Companion to Mark Twain Edited by Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd 38. A Companion to European Romanticism Edited by Michael K. Ferber 39. A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture Edited by David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar 40. A Companion to Walt Whitman Edited by Donald D. Kummings 41. A Companion to Herman Melville Edited by Wyn Kelley 42. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c.1350–c.1500 Edited by Peter Brown 43. A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880–2005 Edited by Mary Luckhurst 44. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry Edited by Christine Gerrard 45. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets Edited by Michael Schoenfeldt 46. A Companion to Satire Edited by Ruben Quintero 47. A Companion to William Faulkner Edited by Richard C. Moreland 48. A Companion to the History of the Book Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose 49. A Companion to Emily Dickinson Edited by Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz 50. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies Edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman 51. A Companion to Charles Dickens Edited by David Paroissien 52. A Companion to James Joyce Edited by Richard Brown 53. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren 54. A Companion to the History of the English Language Edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto 55. A Companion to Henry James Edited by Greg Zacharias 56. A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story Edited by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm For a full list of titles available in the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/literature. A COMPANION TO HENRY JAMES EDITED BY GREG W. ZACHARIAS A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition fi rst published 2008 © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd except chapter 10 © 2008 Sigi Jöttkandt Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientifi c, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. 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If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to Henry James / edited by Greg W. Zacharias. p. cm.—(Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 55) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4051-4042-3 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. James, Henry, 1843–1916—Criticism and interpretation—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Zacharias, Greg W., 1958– PS2124.C235 2008 813′.4—dc22 2008008193 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Set in 11 on 13pt Garamond 3 by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed in Singapore by Markono Print Media Pte Ltd 1 2008 For Bob Gale and Edward Chalfant Contents Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Greg W. Zacharias Chronology of Henry James’s Life and Work 4 Jennifer Eimers Part I Fiction and Non-Fiction 15 1 Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James’s Shorter Fiction, 1865–1878 17 Clair Hughes 2 What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study 32 Sarah Wadsworth 3 Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James’s The American 51 Wendy Graham 4 Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady 70 Peter Rawlings 5 The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation 88 Sarah Daugherty 6 “The Abysses of Silence” in The Turn of the Screw 100 Kimberly C. Reed viii Contents 7 On Maisie’s Knowing Her Own Mind 121 Robert B. Pippin 8 “What woman was ever safe?” Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors 139 Anna Despotopoulou 9 Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove 156 Evelyne Ender 10 Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl 176 Sigi Jöttkandt 11 Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene 193 Gert Buelens 12 Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James 208 Philip Horne 13 What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James’s Last Words 231 Michael Anesko 14 Henry James, Cultural Critic 249 Pierre A. Walker 15 Timeliness and Henry James’s Letters 261 Greg W. Zacharias Part II Contexts for Reading Henry James 275 16 A Brief Biography of Henry James 277 Jennifer Eimers 17 Jamesian Matter 292 Bill Brown 18 Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory 309 Natasha Hurley 19 Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys and Henry James’s The Art of the Novel 324 Denis Flannery 20 Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation 343 Donatella Izzo Contents ix 21 The Others: Henry James’s Family 360 Linda Simon 22 Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James 374 Jonathan Warren 23 Henry James and the United States 390 John Carlos Rowe 24 Henry James and Britain 400 Nicola Bradbury 25 Henry James in France 416 Julie Wolkenstein 26 Henry James and Italy 434 Rosella Mamoli Zorzi 27 Henry James in the Public Sphere 456 Richard Salmon 28 James and Film 472 Susan M. Griffi n Index 490 Notes on Contributors Michael Anesko is the author of “Friction with the Market”: Henry James and the Profes- sion of Authorship (1986) and Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells (1997). He is currently fi nishing a new book, Monsieur de l’Aubépine: The French Face of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a critical study and translation of francophone responses to one of the key fi gures of the American Renaissance. Nicola Bradbury is Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading. She is the author of Henry James the Later Novels (1979) and several books and articles on James, Dickens, and the novel form. Bill Brown is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, in the Department of English Language and Literature. He is the author of A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (2003), and the editor of Things (2001), a special issue of Critical Inquiry that subsequently appeared in book form. Gert Buelens has published several books on Henry James, multi-ethnic American literature, and cultural theory, and is the author of some sixty essays in collections and journals, the latter including the Henry James Review, Modern Philology, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and PMLA. He serves on several editorial boards, including the Canadian Review of American Studies, Comparative American Studies, the Henry James E-Journal, the Henry James Review, MELUS, and Open Humanities Press. He is a past president (2005) of the Henry James Society. Sarah Daugherty, Professor of English (retired) at Wichita State University, is the author of The Literary Criticism of Henry James (1981) and writes the Henry James chapter for American Literary Scholarship: An Annual. Anna Despotopoulou is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Athens, Greece. Her published work includes articles on Henry James and publicity, Jane Notes on Contributors xi Austen, George Eliot, fi lm adaptation of Victorian novels, and the contemporary playwright Peter Shaffer. Jennifer Eimers is fi nishing her dissertation, “It is Art That Makes Life: Experiencing Visual Art in Henry James’s Novels,” at the University of Georgia. She has published articles in the Henry James Review and Searching for America: Essays on American Art and Architecture.
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