List of Contributors // Preface // A Henry James Chronology Introduction: The Moment of Henry James - JONATHAN FREEDMAN // Men, Women, and the American Way - MARTHA BANTA // The James Family Theatricals: Behind the Scenes - FRANCES WILSON // 3 Henry James at Work: The Question of Our Texts - PHILIP HORNE // 4 Henry James and the Invention of Novel Theory - DOROTHY J. HALE // 5 Henry James and the Idea of Evil - ROBERT WEISBUCH // 6 Queer Henry In the Cage - HUGH STEVENS // 7 The Unmentionable Subject in “The Pupil” - MILLICENT BELL // 8 Realism, Culture, and the Place of the Literary: Henry James and The Bostonians - SARA BLAIR // 9 Lambert Strether’s Excellent Adventure - ERIC HARALSON // 10. James’s Elusive Wings - WILLIAM STOWE // 11 Henry James’s American Dream in The Golden Bowl - MARGERY SABIN // 12 Affirming the Alien: The Pragmatist Pluralism of The American Scene 224 - ROSS POSNOCK // Suggestions for Further Reading 247 // Index 253