Power relations in the novels of James: the 'liberal' and the 'radical' version / Winfried Fluck -- Multiple germs, metaphorical systems, and moral fluctuation in The ambassadors / Richard A. Hocks -- James and the ethics of control: aspiring architects and their floating creatures / Sarah B. Daugherty -- James and the shadow of the Roman Empire: manners and the consenting victim / Adrian Poole -- What Maisie knew: Henry James's bildungsroman of the artist as queer moralist / Alfred Habegger -- The double narrative of 'The beast in the jungle': ethical plot, ironical plot, and the play of power / Michiel W. Heyns -- Homoeroticism, identity, and agency in James's late tales / Hugh Stevens -- 'A provision full of responsibilities': senses of the past in Henry James's fourth phase / David McWhirter -- Possessing the American scene: race and vulgarity, seduction and judgment / Gert Buelens -- History, narrative, and responsibility: speech acts in 'The Aspern papers' / J. Hillis Miller