Nicola Bradbury

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. The lessons of the father: Henry James, Sr., on sexual difference 3. Precocious incest: first novels by Louisa May Alcott and Henry James 4. The chains of literature: Elizabeth Stoddard and Henry James 5. Anne Moncure Crane Seemuller: Henry Jamess Jocasta 6. Minnie Temples death and the birth of Henry Jamess imagination 7. The fatherless heroine and the filial son: deep background for The Portrait of a Lady 8. The return of the father in The Bostonians 9. Conclusion Notes Index.

The Victorian 'Fol Sage': Comparative Readings on Carlyle, Emerson, Melville, and Conrad@@@A Mirror for Americanists: Reflections on the Idea of American Literature

In considering the responses of Carlyle, Emerson, Melville, and Conrad to Montaigne and to one another, this work focuses on the fundamental contradiction between wisdom and art and demonstrates that this contradiction impels the writing of the Essais and generates the Victorian sages antic speculations.