Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James's writings available today.* Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James* Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars* Places James's writings within national contexts--American, English, French, and Italian* Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics

Notes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Greg W. ZachariasChronology of Henry James's Life and Work 4Jennifer EimersPart I Fiction and Non-Fiction 151 Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James's Shorter Fiction, 1865-1878 17Clair Hughes2 What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study 32Sarah Wadsworth3 Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James's The American 51Wendy Graham4 Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady 70Peter Rawlings5 The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation 88Sarah Daugherty6 "The Abysses of Silence" in The Turn of the Screw 100Kimberly C. Reed7 On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind 121Robert B. Pippin8 "What woman was ever safe?" Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors 139Anna Despotopoulou9 Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James's The Wings of the Dove 156Evelyne Ender10 Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl 176Sigi Jöttkandt11 Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene 193Gert Buelens12 Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James 208Philip Horne13 What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James's Last Words 231Michael Anesko14 Henry James, Cultural Critic 249Pierre A. Walker15 Timeliness and Henry James's Letters 261Greg W. ZachariasPart II Contexts for Reading Henry James 27516 A Brief Biography of Henry James 277Jennifer Eimers17 Jamesian Matter 292Bill Brown18 Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory 309Natasha Hurley19 Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys and Henry James's The Art of the Novel 324Denis Flannery20 Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation 343Donatella Izzo21 The Others: Henry James's Family 360Linda Simon22 Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James 374Jonathan Warren23 Henry James and the United States 390John Carlos Rowe24 Henry James and Britain 400Nicola Bradbury25 Henry James in France 416Julie Wolkenstein26 Henry James and Italy 434Rosella Mamoli Zorzi27 Henry James in the Public Sphere 456Richard Salmon28 James and Film 472Susan M. GriffinIndex 490