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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Acknowledgements
I - FICTION
Daisy Miller: A Study
Brooksmith
The Real Thing
The Middle Years
The Turn of the Screw
The Beast in the Jungle
The Jolly Corner
II - REVISIONS
Daisy Miller
The Portrait of a Lady
III - TRAVEL
From English Hours
From Italian Hours
From The American Scene
France
IV - CRITICISM
On Whitman “brute sublimity”
On Baudelaire - “This is not Evil . . . it is simply the nasty!”
From Hawthorne - “No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, ...
On Emerson - “salt is wanting”
The Art of Fiction - “the chamber of consciousness” “Try to be one . . . on ...
From The Question of Our Speech - “Our national use of vocal sound, in men and ...
From The Lesson of Balzac - “plated and burnished and bright”
On Shakespeare - the “absolute value of Style”
From the Preface to Roderick Hudson - “Really, universally, relations stop nowhere”
From the Preface to The Portrait of a Lady - “The house of fiction has in short ...
From the Preface to The Tragic Muse - “large loose baggy monsters”
V - AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The peaches d’antan
The dancing teacher Madame Dubreil
A daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady
The Galerie d’Apollon
An obscure hurt
The death of Minnie Temple
At the grave of Alice James
VI - CORRESPONDENCE
A thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend
On the Grand Tour
Henry James, expatriate
The literary scene in Paris
Growing fame
The friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson
The death of Alice James
The friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen
The death of William James
The publication of Boon, and the break with H. G. Wells
VII - DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION
An American encounters some aristocrats
An ambitious young Frenchwoman
Sarah Bernhardt, the muse of the newspaper
An American education
An American is corrected on what constitutes “the self”
An absolutely unmarried woman
Philistine decor
The really rich
New York identity
A Venetian majordomo
Like a scene from a Maeterlinck play
A private thought
The seduction of Europe
A femme du monde
An intimate recollection of a beautiful woman
Colossal immodesty
The individual Jew
New York City Hall
The absence of penetralia
New York power
American teeth
A young priest apart from the Roman carnival
VIII - NAMES
FROM THE FICTION
FROM THE NOTEBOOKS
IX - PARODY
Frank Moore Colby - from IN DARKEST JAMES
Max Beerbohm - THE MOTE IN THE MIDDLE DISTANCE BY H*NRY J*MES
X - LEGACY
W. H. Auden - AT THE GRAVE OF HENRY JAMES 1941
Joseph Conrad - from HENRY JAMES: AN APPRECIATION
T. S. Eliot - from IN MEMORY
Graham Greene - from HENRY JAMES: THE PRIVATE UNIVERSE
Ezra Pound - from HENRY JAMES
Edith Wharton - from A BACKWARD GLANCE 1934
Virginia Woolf - from REVIEW OF THE LETTERS OF HENRY JAMES 1920
Suggestions for Further Reading
Selected Bibliography
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