Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Quotations
Introduction
Part I Turning to Matter in Henry James
Chapter 1 Revolving Heroines
Chapter 2 A Culture of Faulty Parallels
Part II Practical Aesthetics
Chapter 3 The Properties of Touch
(The Spoils of Poynton)
Chapter 4 The Reproduction of Painting
(¿The Liar,¿ ¿The Real Thing,¿ The Tragic Muse)
Chapter 5 Bodies, Papers, and Persons
(The Aspern Papers, ¿The Birthplace¿)
Chapter 6 Adulterous Matter
(A London Life, The Sacred Fount, The Ambassadors)
Part III The Matter of Literary Criticism
Chapter 7 Literary Studies as Sublimated Physicality
Chapter 8 New Materialism: The Color of Air
Notes
Index