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Monopolizing the Master Monopolizing the Master HENRY JAMES AND THE POLITICS OF MODERN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP Michael Anesko STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2012 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. This book has been published with the assistance of the College of the Liberal Arts and the Department of English of The Pennsylvania State University. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anesko, Michael, author. Monopolizing the Master : Henry James and the politics of modern literary scholarship / Michael Anesko. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8047-6932-7 (alk. cloth) 1. James, Henry, 1843–1916. 2. Authors, American—Biography—History and criticism. 3. James, Henry, 1843–1916—Criticism and interpretation—History—20th century. 4. James, Henry, 1843–1916—Archives. 5. James, Henry, 1843–1916—Family. I. Title. ps2123.a66 2012 813'.4—dc23 2011022751 Typeset by Bruce Lundquist in 9/15 Palatino This book is for Warner Berthoff Dan Aaron Bernard Bailyn Teachers, Colleagues, Friends Contents List of Figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1 Cornering the Market 1 Legacies of Mastery 1 Sovereign Immunities 17 Notes of a Son and Nephew 34 2 Custodial Conflicts 46 Remains of the Day 46 From Keyboard to Ouija Board 61 The Queer Case of Percy Lubbock 73 3 Modernist Ventriloquism 109 In Memoriam 109 Passionate Pilgrim—or Pariah? 120 The Art of the Novel 127 4 The James Revival 134 Documentary Monumentalism 134 Partisan (Re)views 144 From Archive to Industry 153 5 The Legend of the Bastard 158 Policing the Archive 158 Dr. Edel and Mr. Hyde 170 Chairman of the Board 182 Afterword 193 Sources and Abbreviations 197 Notes 201 Index 241 Figures James family tree xviii Sketch of the James family, by William James 36 Henry James III 49 Percy Lubbock, Howard Sturgis, and Arthur Christopher Benson 58 “Little B.”—(Theodora Bosanquet) 65 Henry James, by Alvin Langdon Coburn 101 “Editor’s Easy Chair,” manuscript and text from Life in Letters of William Dean Howells 113 Portrait bust of Henry James, by Derwent Wood 165 Portrait bust of Henry James, by Hendrik Andersen 165 Leon Edel 188
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