Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Henry James and Modern Criticism: Some Version of Literary Mastery
Chapter 2: Literary Influences
Part I: James's "Hawthorne" and the American Anxiety of Influence
Part II: James, Trollope, and the Victorian Anxiety of Influence
Chapter 3: Feminist Issues: Women, Power, and Rebellion in "The Bostonians", "The Spoils of Poynton" and "The Aspern Papers"
Chapter 4: Psychoanalytical Significances: The Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in "The Turn of the Screw"
Chapter 5: Social Values: The Marxist Critique of Modernism and "The Princess Casamassima"
Chapter 6: Phenomenological Hermeneutics: Henry James and Literary Impressionism
Chapter 7: Forms of the Reader's Act: Author and Reader in the Prefaces to the New York Edition
Phantoms
Notes
Index