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HENRY 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. Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press HENRY JAMES IN CONTEXT edited by DAVID MCWHIRTER Published online by Cambridge University Press cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore, SãoPaulo,Delhi,Dubai,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521514613 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2010 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2010 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata HenryJamesincontext/editedbyDavidMcWhirter. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-521-51461-3 1. James,Henry,1843–1916–Criticismandinterpretation. 2. James,Henry,1843–1916– Knowledgeandlearning. 3. James,Henry,1843–1916–Homesandhaunts. 4. James,Henry, 1843–1916–Appreciation–History. 5. Literatureandsociety–UnitedStates–History–19th century. 6. Literatureandsociety–UnitedStates–History–20thcentury. 7. Literatureand society–England–History–19thcentury. 8. Literatureandsociety–England–History–20th century. 9. Civilization,Modern–Historiography. 10. Cultureinliterature. I. McWhirter, DavidBruce. II. Title. 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Published online by Cambridge University Press 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 v Published online by Cambridge University Press vi Contents 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 Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents vii 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 Published online by Cambridge University Press viii Contents 39 Criticalresponse,1947–1985 JonathanFreedman 423 40 Recentcriticism(since1985) GertBuelens 435 41 Translationandinternationalreception AnnickDuperrayandJeremyTambling 445 Furtherreading 459 Index 479 Published online by Cambridge University Press 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 ix Published online by Cambridge University Press 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). x Published online by Cambridge University Press
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