An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.

• Contents


• Introduction


• John Carlos Rowe and Eric Haralson


• Henry James, 1843-1916:


• A Brief Biography


• Kendall Johnson


• HENRY JAMES IN HIS TIME


• Henry James and the New Woman


• Martha Banta


• Objects and Images: Henry James and the New Media


• Stuart Culver


• Henry James, Race, and Empire


• Sara Blair


• Henry James and Changing Ideas about Sexuality


• Eric Haralson


• Henry James in a New Century


• John Carlos Rowe


• Illustrated Chronology


• Bibliography Essay: Henry James for All Seasons: Revival, Revisions, Transformations


• Linda Simon


• Contributors


• Index

John Carlos Rowe is USC Associates' Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Eric Haralson is Associate Professor of English at Stonybrook University.