Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Just you wait!’: reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady
- 2 ‘As charming as a charming story’: governesses in What Maisie Knew and ‘The Turn of the Screw’
- 3 ‘The sacred terror’: The Awkward Age and James's men of the world
- 4 Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors
- 5 Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in ‘In the Cage’ and The Wings of the Dove
- 6 ‘A house of quiet’: privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Just you wait!’: reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady
- 2 ‘As charming as a charming story’: governesses in What Maisie Knew and ‘The Turn of the Screw’
- 3 ‘The sacred terror’: The Awkward Age and James's men of the world
- 4 Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors
- 5 Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in ‘In the Cage’ and The Wings of the Dove
- 6 ‘A house of quiet’: privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure , pp. 199 - 203Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002