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1. Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James's Shorter Fiction, 1865–1878 2. What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study 3. Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James's The American 4. Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady 5. The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation 6. “The Abysses of Silence” in The Turn of the Screw 7. On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind 8. “What woman was ever safe?” Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors 9. Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James's The Wings of the Dove 10. Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl 11. Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene 12. Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James 13. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James's Last Words 14. Henry James, Cultural Critic 15. Timeliness and Henry James's Letters ... log in or subscribe to read full text