Table Of ContentIntroduction: ReadingThe American Scene* Two Texts: "The Interest Behind the Interest":The Last of the ValeriiandThe Ambassadors* Histories of Sexuality inThe Portrait of a LadyandThe Bostonians* Monomania and the American Past:The Aspern Papers* Allegorical Autobiography andThe Turn of the Screw* "Within a Modern Shade": Race, Sex, and Class inThe Bostonians, What Maisie Knew,andThe Awkward Age* Henry James's "American Girl":The Wings of the Dove* "The Haunted Man":The Beast in the Jungle,* What Does the American Want?:The Folden Bowl*The Jolly Corner: A Tale of New York Introduction: ReadingThe American Scene* Two Texts: "The Interest Behind the Interest":The Last of the ValeriiandThe Ambassadors* Histories of Sexuality inThe Portrait of a LadyandThe Bostonians* Monomania and the American Past:The Aspern Papers* Allegorical Autobiography andThe Turn of the Screw* "Within a Modern Shade": Race, Sex, and Class inThe Bostonians, What Maisie Knew,andThe Awkward Age* Henry James's "American Girl":The Wings of the Dove* "The Haunted Man":The Beast in the Jungle,* What Does the American Want?:The Folden Bowl*The Jolly Corner: A Tale of New York
SynopsisThis new study of Henry James draws on novels and short stories from throughout his career. Jeremy Tambling discusses James' importance as a theorist of the novel and argues for his importance as an American. He sees all James' work as a complex engagement with America and an attempt to find something in textual form that has been missed in the actual experience of America, in comparison with what he has imagined he has found in Europe.