Preface 1. Henry James and Narrative Meaning 2. "Daisy Miller" and Washington Square 3. Isabel Archer and the Affronting of Plot 4. The Determinate Plot: The Bostonians 5. The Determinate Plot: The Princess Casamassima 6. "The Aspern Papers": The Unvisitable Past 7. The Disengagement from "Things": The Spoils of Poynton 8. "The Turn of the Screw" 9. The Language of Silence: What Maisie Knew 10. The Inaccessible Future: "The Beast in the Jungle" 11. The Presence of Potentiality: "The Jolly Corner" 12. The Wings of the Dove 13. The Ambassadors Notes Index
I admire Millicent Bell’s eloquent, wise, subtle book. There can be
no higher praise than to say it is entirely worthy of its great
subject: our most immense writer and the questions about narrative
method and moral intelligence raised by his work.
*Susan Sontag*
In this beautiful interweaving of psychological insight and
narrative analysis, Millicent Bell unfolds the means by which Henry
James produces fiction that is simultaneously naturalist and
mythological. On page after page she locates the explosive quality
of James’s investigative prose.
*Roger Shattuck*
I admire Millicent Bell's eloquent, wise, subtle book. There can be
no higher praise than to say it is entirely worthy of its great
subject: our most immense writer and the questions about narrative
method and moral intelligence raised by his work. -- Susan
Sontag
In this beautiful interweaving of psychological insight and
narrative analysis, Millicent Bell unfolds the means by which Henry
James produces fiction that is simultaneously naturalist and
mythological. On page after page she locates the explosive quality
of James's investigative prose. -- Roger Shattuck
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