Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index.
Henry James and modern criticism: some versions of literary mastery -- Literary influences, Part I: James's Hawthorne and the American anxiety of influence -- Literary influences, Part II: James, Trollope, and the Victorian anxiety of influence -- Feminist issues: women, power, and rebellion in The Bostonians, The Spoils of Poynton, and The Aspern Papers -- Psychoanalytical significances: the use and abuse of uncertainty in The Turn of the Screw -- Social values: the Marxist critique of modernism and The Princess Casamassima -- Phenomenological hermeneutics: Henry James and literary impressionism -- Forms of the reader's act: author and reader in the prefaces to the New York Edition.
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Henry James
James, Henry,1843-1916-- Criticism and interpretation.
Communism and literature.
Feminism and literature-- United States.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Phenomenology and literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature-- United States.
Psychological fiction, American-- History and criticism.