Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information HENRY JAMES IN CONTEXT Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical con- sciousness, Henry James has often been viewed as detached from, and uninterested in, the social, political and material realities of his time. As this volume demonstrates, however, James was acutely responsive not only to his era’s changing attitudes toward gender, sexuality, class and ethnicity, but also to changing conditions of literary production and reception, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, and the emergence of new technologies and media, of new apprehensions of time and space. These essays portray the author and his works in the context of the modernity that determined, formed, interested, appalled and/or provoked his always curious mind. With contribu- tions from an international cast of distinguished scholars, Henry James in Context provides a map of leading-edge work in contemporary James studies, an invaluable reference work for students and scholars, and a blueprint for possible future directions. DAVID MC WHIRTER is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information HENRY JAMES IN CONTEXT edited by DAVID MC WHIRTER © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb28ru,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521514613 © Cambridge University Press 2010 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2010 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Henry James in context / edited by David McWhirter. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-521-51461-3 1. James, Henry, 1843–1916 – Criticism and interpretation. 2. James, Henry, 1843–1916 – Knowledge and learning. 3. James, Henry, 1843–1916 – Homes and haunts. 4. James, Henry, 1843–1916 – Appreciation – History. 5. Literature and society – United States – History – 19th century. 6. Literature and society – United States – History – 20th century. 7. Literature and society – England – History – 19th century. 8. Literature and society – England – History – 20th century. 9. Civilization, Modern – Historiography. 10. Culture in literature. I. McWhirter, David Bruce. II. Title. PS2124.H454 2010 8130.4–dc22 2010011236 isbn 978-0-521-51461-3 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information Contents List of illustrations page ix Notes on contributors x Preface xix List of abbreviations xxii Chronology Christopher Carmona xxiv part one life and career, times and places 1 1 Nineteenth-century America (1843–1870) Andrew Taylor 3 2 Nineteenth-century Europe (1843–1900) Millicent Bell 14 3 Victorian England (1870–1890) Priscilla L. Walton 26 4 Fin-de-siècle London (1890–1900) Michael Levenson 37 5 The twentieth-century world (1901–1916) Martha Banta 47 6 Autobiographies and biographies Sheila Teahan 58 7 Letters and notebooks Philip Horne 68 8 The James family Pierre A. Walker 80 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information vi Contents part two historical and cultural contexts 91 9 Aestheticism and Decadence Michèle Mendelssohn 93 10 Authorship Richard Salmon 105 11 Children Kevin Ohi 115 12 Consumer culture Miranda El-Rayess 126 13 Cosmopolitanism Jessica Berman 138 14 Courtship, marriage, family Lynn Wardley 150 15 Ethics Merle A. Williams 161 16 Language Elsa Nettels 171 17 Law Stuart Culver 180 18 Manners Mary Ann O’Farrell 192 19 Media and communication technologies Mark Goble 203 20 Modernism Eric Haralson 214 21 Money and class June Hee Chung 224 22 Museums and exhibitions Tamara L. Follini 234 23 Nationalism and imperialism John Carlos Rowe 246 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information Contents vii 24 Print culture Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen 258 25 Psychology Sarah Blackwood 270 26 Race Kenneth W. Warren 280 27 Realism and naturalism Phillip Barrish 292 28 Sexualities and sexology Hugh Stevens 301 29 Social sciences and the disciplines Wendy Graham 310 30 Things Victoria Coulson 321 31 Time Deidre Lynch 332 32 Travel and tourism Roslyn Jolly 343 33 Urbanity Eric Savoy 354 34 Visual culture Kendall Johnson 364 35 Women and men Donatella Izzo 378 36 Work Rory Drummond 389 part three reception 401 37 Publishing history and contemporary reception Linda Simon 403 38 Critical response, 1916–1947 Michael Anesko 412 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information viii Contents 39 Critical response, 1947–1985 Jonathan Freedman 423 40 Recent criticism (since 1985) Gert Buelens 435 41 Translation and international reception Annick Duperray and Jeremy Tambling 445 Further reading 459 Index 479 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information Illustrations 1 ‘The Six-Mark Tea-Pot’ by George du Maurier, Punch, 30 October 1880. Courtesy of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland. page 94 2 A. L. Coburn, ‘The Cage’, frontispiece to What Maisie Knew, ‘In the Cage’ and ‘The Pupil’, New York Edition, vol. XI (1907–9). Courtesy of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. 128 3 A. L. Coburn, ‘The Curiosity Shop’, frontispiece to the first volume of The Golden Bowl, New York Edition, vol. XXIII (1907–9). Courtesy of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. 129 4 Young Henry James, Jr with his father Henry James, Sr, a daguerreotype from the studios of Matthew Brady (1854). Frontispiece to A Small Boy and Others (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1913). 368 5 Max Beerbohm, ‘Mr Henry James (in America)’, A Book of Caricatures (London: Methuen, 1907), plate 48. 373 ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51461-3 - Henry James in Context Edited by David McWhirter Frontmatter More information Contributors MICHAEL ANESKO teaches English and American literature at the Pennsylvania State University. His principal publications include ‘Friction with the Market’: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship (1986) and Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells (1997). He has just finished a new study, The French Face of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Monsieur de l’Aubépine and His Second Empire Critics, to be published by Ohio State University Press (2011). MARTHA BANTA, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, is the author of six books and numerous essays, reviews and editions, many of which treat the works of Henry James. Among them are Barbaric Intercourse (2002), One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic (2007) and the introduction to the Complete Letters of Henry James: 1876–1878, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. PHILLIP BARRISH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 (2001) and White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism (2005). His Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism is forthcoming. MILLICENT BELL, Professor of English, Emeritus, Boston University, has published widely on Henry James, from her pioneering Edith Wharton and Henry James (1965)toMeaning in Henry James (1993). Her most recent contributions to James studies are the introductions to the Penguin Classics edition of The Wings of the Dove (2008) and to the Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876 (2009). JESSICA BERMAN is Associate Professor of English and of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001) and co-editor of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds (2001). x © in