Leon Edel, 12 vols. (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962–4) (prints the texts of the first book publications)

The Tales of Henry James, ed. Maqbool Aziz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973– ), 3 vols. to date (prints the texts of the first publication, usually in magazines)

The Art of the Novel, ed. R. P. Blackmur (New York: Scribner’s, 1962) (Collected Prefaces to the New York Edition)

The Critical Muse: Selected Literary Criticism, ed. Roger Gard (London: Penguin, 1987)

Literary Criticism: French Writers; Other European Writers; The Prefaces to the New York Edition (New York: Library of America, 1984)

Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature; American Writers; English Writers (New York: Library of America, 1984)

The Complete Notebooks of Henry James, ed. Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)

BIOGRAPHY

Edel, Leon, Henry James, 5 vols. (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953–72)

Kaplan, Fred, Henry James: The Imagination of Genius (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992)

Lewis, R. W. B., The Jameses: A Family Narrative (London: André Deutsch, 1991)

Matthiessen, F. O., The James Family: A Group Biography (1947; New York: Vintage Books, 1980)

CRITICISM

Albers, Christina E., A Reader’s Guide to the Short Stories of Henry James (New York: Hall, 1997)

Anesko, Michael, ‘Friction with the Market’: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)

Banta, Martha, Henry James and the Occult: The Great Extension (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972)

Bishop, George, When the Master Relents: The Neglected Short Fictions of Henry James (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1988)

Buelens, Gert (ed.), Enacting History in Henry James: Narrative, Power, and Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Chambers, Ross, ‘Not for the Vulgar? The Question of Readership in “The Figure in the Carpet”’, Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction (Minneapolis and Manchester: University of Minnesota and Manchester University Press, 1984), pp. 151–80

Chapman, Sara S., Henry James’s Portrait of the Writer as Hero (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990)

Freedman, Jonathan, The Cambridge Companion to Henry James (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Gage, Richard P., Order and Design: Henry James’ Titled Story Sequences (New York: Peter Lang, 1988)

Gard, Roger (ed.), Henry James: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1982)

Goode, John (ed.), The Air of Reality: New Essays on Henry James (London: Methuen, 1972)

Hocks, Richard A., Henry James: A Study of the Short Fiction (Boston: Twayne, 1990)

Horne, Philip, Henry James and Revision (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990)

Jolly, Roslyn, Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)

Kappeler, Susanne, Reading and Writing in Henry James (London: Macmillan, 1980)

Lustig, T. J., Henry James and the Ghostly (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

McWhirter, David (ed.), Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995)

Poole, Adrian, Henry James (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991)

Putt, S. Gorley, A Reader’s Guide to Henry James (London: Thames and Hudson, 1966)

Reeve, N. H. (ed.), Henry James: The Shorter Fiction – Reassessments (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)

Rimmon, Shlomith, The Concept of Ambiguity: The Example of Henry James (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977)

Rowe, John Carlos, The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James (Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984)

Rowe, John Carlos, The Other Henry James (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998)

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, ‘The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic’, Epistemology of the Closet (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990), pp. 182–212

Stevens, Hugh, Henry James and Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Tanner, Tony (ed.), Henry James: Modern Judgements (London: Macmillan, 1968)

Tanner, Tony, Henry James: The Writer and his Work (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985) (originally published as three pamphlets by the British Council, 1979–81)

Tanner, Tony, The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965)

Todorov, Tzvetan, ‘The Secret of Narrative’ and ‘The Ghosts of Henry James’, The Poetics of Prose, trans. Richard Howard (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977), pp. 143–78 and 179–89 respectively

Vaid, Krishna Baldev, Technique in the Tales of Henry James (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964)

Wagenknecht, Edward, The Tales of Henry James (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1984)

West, Rebecca, Henry James (London: Nisbet and Co., 1916)

JOURNAL AND INTERNET

The Henry James Review (1979– ) is published three times a year. The Henry James Scholar’s Guide to Web Sites (www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/) publishes electronic texts of James’s works and provides information on conferences and discussion groups.

A HENRY JAMES CHRONOLOGY

The titles of tales in this volume are marked by asterisks and at the first date of publication.

1843 Born 15 April, Washington Place, New York, the second son of Henry and Mary James. (Elder brother William – future philosopher and author of The Varieties of Religious Experience– born 1842.)

1843–4 Family travelling in Europe. Father experiences nervous breakdown and spiritual resurrection, and becomes a Swedenborgian.

1844–55 Childhood in Albany and then New York City; birth of brothers (Garth Wilkinson or ‘Wilky’, 1845; Robertson, 1847) and sister (Alice, 1848). Father, frequently visited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and others of the Transcendentalist group, despairs of American education for his children.

1855–8 Family travelling in Europe. Henry educated in France, England and Switzerland, and by private tutor.

1858 Family resident at Newport, Rhode Island. Henry befriends Francophile and painter John La Farge.

1859 Family travelling in Europe. Henry at school in Geneva (engineering at his parents’ insistence; later in the humanities) and Bonn (studying German).

1860–62 Family returns to Newport. La Farge introduces Henry to contemporary French literature; Henry discovers Hawthorne.