Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 James's Jocasta
- 6 Minnie Temple's Death and the Birth of Henry James's 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
- Works Cited
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 James's Jocasta
- 6 Minnie Temple's Death and the Birth of Henry James's 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
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Henry James and the 'Woman Business' , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989