166, John Ayto dates ‘queer’ meaning ‘homosexual’ to 1922 and states that the usage did not become widespread until the 1930s. This is, of course, long after James. However, evidence of word usage is never conclusive – not least in the case of language naming controversial or taboo subjects.

20. See, for example, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic’, Epistemology of the Closet (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990), pp. 182–212. Philip Horne has taken the pains to point out the inadequacies of such readings in his ‘The Master and the “Queer Affair” of “The Pupil”’, in Henry James: The Shorter Fiction – Reassessments (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 114–37.

21. Susan Sontag, ‘Against Interpretation’ (1964), in A Susan Sontag Reader (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983), pp. 95–104.

22. Henry James, ‘A Round of Visits’ (1910), in The Complete Tales of Henry James, ed. Leon Edel, Vol. 12, 1903–1910 (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964), p. 449.

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edel, Leon and Dan H. Laurence, A Bibliography of Henry James, 3rd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982)

LIFE AND LETTERS

A Small Boy and Others (New York: Scribner’s, 1913); Notes of a Son and Brother (New York: Scribner’s, 1914); and The Middle Years (Glasgow: Collins, 1917) (autobiographies)

Henry James: A Life in Letters, ed. Philip Horne (London: Allen Lane, 1999)

The Letters of Henry James, ed. Percy Lubbock, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1920); Selected Letters of Henry James, ed. Leon Edel (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956); and Henry James Letters, ed. Leon Edel, 4 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1974–84) (these volumes overlap to some extent)

The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams 1877–1914, ed. George Monteiro (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992)

Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells, ed. Michael Anesko (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

The Correspondence of Henry James and the House of Macmillan, 1877–1914, ed. Rayburn S. Moore (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993)

Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record of Friendship and Criticism, ed. Janet Adam Smith (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948)

Henry James and H. G. Wells: A Record of their Friendship, their Debate on the Art of Fiction, and their Quarrel, ed. Leon Edel and Gordon N. Ray (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958)

Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters 1900–1915, ed. Lyall H. Powers (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990)

JAMES’S WRITINGS

The Novels and Tales of Henry James, 24 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907–9; London: Macmillan, 1908–9) (New York Edition)

The Complete Tales of Henry James, ed.