Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Henry James and Critical Theory 1
5. 1 Swept Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and "The Last of the Valerii" 38
6. 2 A Phantom of the Opera: Christopher Newman's Unconscious in The American 56
7. 3 Acting Lessons: Racial, Sexual, and Aesthetic Politics in The Tragic Muse 75
8. 4 Textual Preference: James's Literary Defenses against Sexuality in "The Middle Years" and "The Death of the Lion" 101
9. 5 The Portrait of a Small Boy as a Young Girl: Gender Trouble in What Maisie Knew 120
10. 6 Spectral Mechanics: Gender, Sexuality, and Work in In the Cage 155
11. Conclusion: Henry James and the Art of Teaching 181
12. Notes 199
13. Index 233