The Portable Henry James

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Portable JamesIntroduction Chronology Acknowledgments I. Daisy Miller: A Study Brooksmith The Real Thing The Middle Years Turn of Screw The Beast in Jungle The Jolly Corner II. Revisions Daisy Miller: 1879 and 1909 Portrait of a Lady: 1881 and 1908 III. Travel From English Hours at Midsummer From Italian Hours Two Old Houses and Three Young Women The Saint's Afternoon and From American Scene The Bowery and Thereabouts from Boston France IV. Criticism On Whitman brute sublimity On Baudelaire This is not Evil...it is simply nasty! From Hawthorne No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church On Emerson salt is wanting The Art of Fiction the chamber of consciousness Try to be one...on whom nothing is lost! From the Question of Speech Our national use of vocal sound, in men and women alike, is slovenly From The Lesson of Balzac plated and burnished and bright On Shakespeare absolute value of Style From Preface to Roderick Hudson Really, universally, relations stop nowhere From Preface to Portrait of a Lady The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million From Preface to Tragic Muse large loose baggy monsters V. Autobiography peaches d'antan from A Small Boy and Others dancing teacher Madame Dubreil from A Small Boy and Others A daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady from A Small Boy and Others Galerie d'Apollon from A Small Boy and Others An obscure hurt from Notes of a Son and Brother death of Minnie Temple from Notes of a Son and Brother grave of Alice from Complete Notebooks VI. Correspondence A thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend To Edgar Van Winkle 1856 On Grand Tour To William October 30, 1869 James, expatriate To family November 1, 1875 literary scene in Paris To William Dean Howells May 28, 1876 Growing fame To Miss Abbey Alger November 21, 1881 friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson To Robert Louis Stevenson July 31, 1888 death of Alice To William March 8, 1892 friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen To Hendrik C. Andersen February 9, 1902 To Hendrik C. Andersen February 28, 1902 death of William To Thomas Sergeant Perry September 2, 1910 To H. G. Wells September 11, 1910 publication of Boon, and break with H. G. Wells To H. G. Wells July 6, 1915 To H. G. Wells July 10, 1915 VII. Definition and Description An American encounters some aristocrats from American An ambitious young Frenchwoman from American Sarah Bernhardt, muse of newspaper from The Comedie Francaise in London An American education from Portrait of a Lady An American is corrected on what constitutes the self from Portrait of a Lady An absolutely unmarried woman from Bostonians Philistine decor from Spils of Poynton really rich from Wings of Dove New York identity from Wings of Dove A Venetian majordomo from Wings of Dove Like a scene from a Maeterlinck play from Wings of Dove A private thought from Wings of Dove seduction of Europe from Ambassadors A femme du monde from Ambassadors An intimate recollection of a beautiful woman from Golden Bowl Colossal immodesty from American Scene individual Jew from American Scene New York City Hall from American Scene absence of penetralia from American Scene New York Power from American Scene American teeth from American Scene A young priest apart from Roman carnival from Italian Hours VIII. Names IX. Parody Frank Moore Colby from In Darkest James Max Beerbohm 'The Mote in Middle Distance,' by H*nry J*mes X. Legacy W.H. Auden At Grave of James Joseph Conrad from Henry James: An Appreciation T.S. Eliot from In Memory Graham Greene from Henry James: Private Universe Ezra Pound from Henry James Edith Wharton from A Backward Glance Virginia Woolf from Review of Letters of James Suggestions for Further Reading Selected Bibliography

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