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"Daring and dazzling in scope, John Carlos Rowe's brilliant readings create the makings of an alternative canon for James's career, one more suitable to our time."--Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University
Contents Preface Introduction: Henry James and Critical Theory Swept Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and "The Last of the Valerii" A Phantom of the Opera: Christopher Newman's Unconscious in The American Acting Lessons: Racial, Sexual, and Aesthetic Politics in The Tragic Muse Textual Preference: James's Literary Defences against Sexuality in "The Middle Years" and "The Death of the Lion" The Portrait of a Small Boy as a Young Girl: Gender Trouble in What Maisie Knew Spectral Mechanics: Gender, Sexuality, and Work in In the Cage Conclusion: Henry James and the Art of Teaching Notes; Index