Table Of ContentHENRY JAMES IN CONTEXT
Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical con
sciousness,HenryJameshasoftenbeenviewedasdetachedfrom,and
uninterestedin,thesocial,politicalandmaterialrealitiesofhistime.
Asthisvolumedemonstrates,however,Jameswasacutelyresponsive
notonlytohisera’schangingattitudestowardgender,sexuality,class
andethnicity,butalsotochangingconditionsofliteraryproduction
and reception, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, and the
emergence of new technologies and media, of new apprehensions of
timeandspace.Theseessaysportraytheauthorandhisworksinthe
context of the modernity that determined, formed, interested,
appalled and/or provoked his always curious mind. With contribu
tionsfromaninternationalcastofdistinguishedscholars,HenryJames
in Context provides a map of leading edge work in contemporary
Jamesstudies,aninvaluablereferenceworkforstudentsandscholars,
andablueprintforpossiblefuturedirections.
DAVID MCWHIRTER isAssociateProfessorofEnglishatTexasA&M
University.
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Contents
Listofillustrations pageix
Notesoncontributors x
Preface xix
Listofabbreviations xxii
Chronology
ChristopherCarmona xxiv
part one life and career, times and places 1
1 Nineteenth-centuryAmerica(1843–1870)
AndrewTaylor 3
2 Nineteenth-centuryEurope(1843–1900)
MillicentBell 14
3 VictorianEngland(1870–1890)
PriscillaL.Walton 26
4 Fin-de-siècleLondon(1890–1900)
MichaelLevenson 37
5 Thetwentieth-centuryworld(1901–1916)
MarthaBanta 47
6 Autobiographiesandbiographies
SheilaTeahan 58
7 Lettersandnotebooks
PhilipHorne 68
8 TheJamesfamily
PierreA.Walker 80
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part two historical and cultural contexts 91
9 AestheticismandDecadence
MichèleMendelssohn 93
10 Authorship
RichardSalmon 105
11 Children
KevinOhi 115
12 Consumerculture
MirandaEl-Rayess 126
13 Cosmopolitanism
JessicaBerman 138
14 Courtship,marriage,family
LynnWardley 150
15 Ethics
MerleA.Williams 161
16 Language
ElsaNettels 171
17 Law
StuartCulver 180
18 Manners
MaryAnnO’Farrell 192
19 Mediaandcommunicationtechnologies
MarkGoble 203
20 Modernism
EricHaralson 214
21 Moneyandclass
JuneHeeChung 224
22 Museumsandexhibitions
TamaraL.Follini 234
23 Nationalismandimperialism
JohnCarlosRowe 246
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24 Printculture
JakobStougaard-Nielsen 258
25 Psychology
SarahBlackwood 270
26 Race
KennethW.Warren 280
27 Realismandnaturalism
PhillipBarrish 292
28 Sexualitiesandsexology
HughStevens 301
29 Socialsciencesandthedisciplines
WendyGraham 310
30 Things
VictoriaCoulson 321
31 Time
DeidreLynch 332
32 Travelandtourism
RoslynJolly 343
33 Urbanity
EricSavoy 354
34 Visualculture
KendallJohnson 364
35 Womenandmen
DonatellaIzzo 378
36 Work
RoryDrummond 389
part three reception 401
37 Publishinghistoryandcontemporaryreception
LindaSimon 403
38 Criticalresponse,1916–1947
MichaelAnesko 412
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39 Criticalresponse,1947–1985
JonathanFreedman 423
40 Recentcriticism(since1985)
GertBuelens 435
41 Translationandinternationalreception
AnnickDuperrayandJeremyTambling 445
Furtherreading 459
Index 479
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Illustrations
1 ‘TheSix-MarkTea-Pot’byGeorgeduMaurier,Punch,
30October1880.CourtesyoftheTrusteesoftheNational
LibraryofScotland. page94
2 A.L.Coburn,‘TheCage’,frontispiecetoWhatMaisie
Knew,‘IntheCage’and‘ThePupil’,NewYorkEdition,
vol.XI(1907–9).CourtesyoftheHarryRansom
HumanitiesResearchCenter,UniversityofTexasatAustin. 128
3 A.L.Coburn,‘TheCuriosityShop’,frontispiecetothefirst
volumeofTheGoldenBowl,NewYorkEdition,vol.XXIII
(1907–9).CourtesyoftheHarryRansomHumanities
ResearchCenter,UniversityofTexasatAustin. 129
4 YoungHenryJames,JrwithhisfatherHenryJames,Sr,a
daguerreotypefromthestudiosofMatthewBrady(1854).
FrontispiecetoASmallBoyandOthers(NewYork:Scribner’s
Sons,1913). 368
5 MaxBeerbohm,‘MrHenryJames(inAmerica)’,ABookof
Caricatures(London:Methuen,1907),plate48. 373
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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
OhioStateUniversityPress(2011).
MARTHA BANTA, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, is the author of six books
andnumerousessays,reviewsandeditions,manyofwhichtreattheworks
of Henry James. Among them are Barbaric Intercourse (2002), One True
TheoryandtheQuestforanAmericanAesthetic(2007)andtheintroductionto
the Complete Letters of Henry James: 1876–1878, forthcoming from the
UniversityofNebraskaPress.
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
CambridgeIntroductiontoAmericanLiteraryRealismisforthcoming.
MILLICENT BELL, Professor of English, Emeritus, Boston University, has
publishedwidelyonHenryJames,fromherpioneeringEdithWhartonand
Henry James (1965) to Meaning in Henry James (1993). Her most recent
contributionstoJamesstudiesaretheintroductionstothePenguinClassics
editionofTheWingsoftheDove(2008)andtotheCompleteLettersofHenry
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).
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