Our Henry James addresses the interesting revival of Henry James's works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the 1960s to the present.
John Carlos Rowe (B.A., Johns Hopkins; Ph.D., SUNY, Buffalo) is USC Associates' Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of nine books, 200 essays and reviews, and editor or co-editor of eleven books. Three of his authored books have focused on Henry James: Henry Adams and Henry James: The Emergence of a Modern Consciousness (1976), The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James (1984), and The Other Henry James (1998). He is a past President of the Henry James Society (2011-2012).
Introduction: Our Henry James
Part I: His Times
1. Henry James and the Form of Sentiment
2. Romantic Sentimentalism in Daisy Miller: A Study (1878)
3. From Melodrama to Soap Opera: The Awkward Age of Popular Culture
4. Henry James, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, and T. S. Eliot: Some Versions of Modernism
Part II: Our Times
5. Caged Heat: Feminist Rebellion in James's In the Cage and Hitchcock's Rear Window
6. Daisy and Frederick and Polly and Peter and Cybill and Hugh and Dorothy and Paul: Daisy Miller in Hollywood
7. For Mature Audiences: Sex and Gender in Film Adaptations of Henry James's Fiction
8. What Would James Do? Transnationalism in Recent Literary Adaptations of Henry James
Epilogue: My Henry James