Full Description
Sheldon M. Novick has written an extensive biographical introduction. This is complimented by an essay documenting James's friendships with younger men, which includes quotations from unpublished letters. Other subjects include the influence on James of the emergence of a specific concept of 'the homosexual' and James's reactions to the aesthetic movement; and there are close analyses of many of James's stories and novels, selected so that all of his career is represented.
Contents
Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction; S.M.Novick James Among the Aesthetes; R.Ellmann Henry James's Permanent Adolescence; J.R.Bradley The Art of Friendship in Roderick Hudson; G.Woods An Exchange of Gifts in The American; C.B.Torsney Failed Heterosexuality in The Portrait of a Lady; R.K.Martin A World of Female Friendship: The Bostonians; D.Van Leer Homo-Erotic Desire in the Tales of Writers and Artists; L.S.Person.Jr Dearly Beloved Friends: James's Letters to Younger Men; S.Gunter and S.Jobe Renunciation in the Late Novels; N.Buchele Index
