Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Indiscreet anatomies and protogay aesthetes in Roderick Hudson and The Europeans; 2 The elusive queerness of "queer comrades": The Tragic Muse and "The Author of 'Beltraffo' "; 3 The Turn of the Screw, or: The Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen; 4 Masculinity "changed and queer" in The Ambassadors; 5 Gratifying "the eternal boy in us all": Willa Cather, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde
In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway