Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Henry James and Critical Theory -- Chapter 1. Swept Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and "The Last of the Valerii" -- Chapter 2. A Phantom of the Opera: Christopher Newman's Unconscious in The American...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Henry James and Critical Theory -- Chapter 1. Swept Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and "The Last of the Valerii" -- Chapter 2. A Phantom of the Opera: Christopher Newman's Unconscious in The American -- Chapter 3. Acting Lessons: Racial, Sexual, and Aesthetic Politics in The Tragic Muse -- Chapter 4. Textual Preference: James's Literary Defenses against Sexuality in "The Middle Years" and "The Death of the Lion" -- Chapter 5. The Portrait of a Small Boy as a Young Girl: Gender Trouble in What Maisie Knew -- Chapter 6. Spectral Mechanics: Gender, Sexuality, and Work in In the Cage -- Conclusion: Henry James and the Art of Teaching -- Notes -- Index.
Cover -- Keats, Hunt and the Aesthetics of Pleasure -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: A Problem of Interpretation -- 2 The Bourgeois Cultural Revolution -- 3 The Aesthetics of Nature -- 4 Classicism as Cultural Luxury -- 5 'A Leafy...
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Cover -- Keats, Hunt and the Aesthetics of Pleasure -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: A Problem of Interpretation -- 2 The Bourgeois Cultural Revolution -- 3 The Aesthetics of Nature -- 4 Classicism as Cultural Luxury -- 5 'A Leafy Luxury': Poems (1817) -- 6 'Wherein Lies Happiness?': Endymion (1818) -- 7 'Visions of Delight': Lamia (1820) -- 8 Conclusion: The Return of the Aesthetic -- Notes -- Index.
