Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- On 'The European Society of Jamesian Studies' -- 1. Henry James on Opening the Door to the Devil -- 2. From Romance to Redemption -- 3. James's Sociology of Taste -- 4. Bad Investments -- 5. 'The Crash of Civilisation' -- 6. The Citizens of Babylon and the Imperial Imperative -- 7. French as the Fantasmal Idiom of Truth in What Maisie Knew -- 8. Figures of Fulfillment: James and "a Sense of Italy" -- 9. The Aspern Papers -- 10. The Wavering Ruins of The American -- 11. Balzacian Intertextuality and Jamesian Autobiography in The Ambassadors -- 12. A Discordance Between the Self and the World -- 13 'D�ej�a Vu' in 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 14. Some Allusions in the Early Stories -- 15. C'est strictement confidentiel -- 16. James and the Habit of Allusion -- 17 The Absent Writer in The Tragic Muse -- 18. James and the "Paradox of the Comedian" -- 19. Benjamin Britten's Appropriation of James in Owen Wingrave -- 20. Narrative Heterogeneity as an Adjustable Fictional Lens in The American Scene -- 21. James's Faces -- 22. From Copying to Revision -- 23. Friction with the Publishers -- 24. Losing Oneself -- Bibliography -- Index.

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