... physiognomy and phrenology Cooper James Fenimore sentimental fiction Austen Jane Fiedler Leslie Lawrence D H gendered mindreading and literacy women Charles Brockden Brown metaphor interiority consciousness Edgar Allan Poe Frederick Douglass Henry James Charles Chesnutt James Fenimore Cooper...

...This chapter explores the impact of magazine publishing in the final decade of the nineteenth century on Henry James's short stories in terms of material appearance, content, and composition. It looks at the scope of technological advances in print culture during the period by presenting a sampling...

...One of Henry James's last stories, “Julia Bride” (1908), documents his conflicts at this stage of his career with editors, publishers, and illustrators. James wrote the story upon the suggestion of J. Henry Harper, who urged him in 1894 to do another Daisy Miller for his...

...This chapter focuses on “The Beldonald Holbein,” one of the “tales of the artist” composed by Henry James for the magazines at the turn of the century. “The Beldonald Holbein” repeatedly alludes to a single artist, Hans Holbein the Younger, with a narrative space in which the reader's mental...

...This chapter deals with the analytic techniques used by Henry James to appraise modern illustration in a series of essays he wrote on some of its best-known practitioners. James contributed catalogue notes for several illustrators' exhibitions, devoted one of his “American Letters...

...In the decades after the Civil War, European travel emerged as an important part of modern American life, and noted authors published numerous travel articles in upscale periodicals. Henry James regularly wrote travel pieces during the 1870s and 1880s not only as a form of subsidized research...

.... In particular, fooling appears as a subterranean force in two important social spaces in the antebellum United States: the slave auction and the asylum. The closing pages continue to explore the cognitive impact of Gilded Age inequality by examining the gendered and national reasons for what Henry James...

... such as Henry James's The Ambassadors (1903), along with numerous stories, sketches, and popular novels. As this image of the “polite” studio gathering suggests, idealized versions of Bohemia offered a “neutral ground between propriety and license.” ⁸⁴ Just as the ideal...

... Communal norms Foucault Michel Freedman Jonathan Intimacy Repetition Primal scene Freud Sigmund Silverman Kaja Unconscious Intuition Berman Jessica Brown Wendy Vermeule Blakey Cosmopolitanism Walkowitz Rebecca Butler Judith Inconsistency Henry James social interests pragmatism...

...This book reconsiders a significant portion of Henry James's oeuvre in light of the explosive growth of the periodicals industry in Europe and the United States in the late nineteenth century. The technology-driven “magazine revolution” during this period was a pivotal moment in the history...

...This book examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. It re-examines James's stories, criticism, and travel essays in light of the explosive growth of the magazine industry in the United States...