PLAYS
For James’s initially successful but eventually disastrous excursion into the theater, see Leon Edel, ed., The Complete Plays of Henry James, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949.
THEATRICAL CRITICISM
For James’s reviews of the theater, see Allan Wade, ed., Henry James: The Scenic Art: Notes on Acting and Drama, 1872-1901, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1948.
ART CRITICISM
A fine selection of his art criticism is presented in Susan M. Griffin and John L. Sweeney, eds., Henry James: The Painter’s Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994 (revised from Sweeney’s 1956 edition).
Selected Bibliography
In 1930 Vernon Louis Parrington’s Main Currents in American Thought promised a comprehensive “interpretation of American literature.” The influential study dedicated six pages to Peter Cooper, eight to John Fiske, twelve to William Dean Howells, thirteen to Edward Bellamy, and fourteen to Edwin Lawrence Godkin. Henry James was summed up in less than two pages. Today there are more than 220 critical studies listed among the almost one thousand Henry James entries in the catalog of the Library of Congress.
REFERENCE
American Literary Scholarship, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1963-present. An annual review of the year’s publications in James studies; indispensable for serious research.
Nicola Bradbury, An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Henry James, New York: St. Martin’s, 1987.
Leon Edel and Dan H. Laurence, with James Rambeau, A Bibliography of Henry James, 3rd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Leon Edel and Adeline R. Tintner, eds., The Library of Henry James, Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1987. The catalog of James’s own library.
Daniel Mark Fogel, ed., A Companion to Henry James Studies, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. The most comprehensive handbook, on the fiction, the nonfiction, and the criticism; with an excellent annotated bibliography.
Jonathan Freedman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Henry James, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Collects twelve fine essays.
Robert Gale, A Henry James Encyclopedia, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1989. An invaluable reference tool.
S. Gorley Putt, Henry James: A Reader’s Guide, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966. Ignores the nonfiction, the criticism, and the work for the theater, but provides a basic discussion of every novel and tale.
WEBSITES
The Henry James Scholar’s Guide to Web Sites: http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/. An excellent website, conceived and maintained by Richard Hathaway at SUNY-New Paltz. E-texts, links to other Henry James items, an e-journal, concordances, articles and reviews, a discussion group.
(See also Jobe and Gunter, under Correspondence.)
JOURNALS
The Henry James Review, 1979-present. A distinguished journal founded by Daniel Mark Fogel.
BIOGRAPHY
Leon Edel, Henry James: The Untried Years 1843-1870: Vol. I; The Conquest of London 1870-1881: Vol. II; The Middle Years 1882-1895: Vol. III; The Treacherous Years 1895-1901: Vol. IV; The Master 1901-1916: Vol. V; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1953-72. The standard biography.
———. Henry James: A Life, 1985. The one-volume abridgment of the five-volume biography offers more frank treatment of the issue of homoeroticism and homosexuality.
Philip Horne, Henry James: A Life in Letters, New York: Viking, 1999. Choice correspondence linked by shrewd editorial commentary.
Henry James, A Small Boy and Others, 1913; Notes of a Son and Brother, 1914; The Middle Years, 1917. Republished in one volume under the title Autobiography; edited with an introduction by Frederick Dupee, New York: Criterion Books, 1956.
Fred Kaplan, Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, New York: William Morrow, 1992. The first full biography since Edel; a worthy addition.
R. W. B. Lewis, The Jameses: A Family Narrative, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.
Sheldon Novick, Henry James: The Young Master, New York: Random House, 1996. Controversial in its assertion of an active homosexual life.
CORRESPONDENCE
The first volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, edited by Greg W. Zacharias and Pierre Walker, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2003. The edition is planned for at least thirty print volumes, and it will also be accessible on the web and in DVD format. The first volume will publish approximately 100 of the over 10,000 letters that have been catalogued.
Leon Edel, ed., Henry James Letters, 4 vols., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974-84.
Stephen H. Jobe and Susan Elizabeth Gunter, eds., A Calendar of the Letters of Henry James & Biographical Register of Henry James’s Correspondents. “This website provides access to a database of all known letters written by Henry James, and brief biographical information on the recipients of these letters.” http://jamescalendar.unl.edu/
(See also Philip Horne, under Biography.)
Percy Lubbock, ed., The Letters of Henry James, 2 vols., New York: Scribner’s, 1920.
Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley, with the assistance of Bernice Grohskopf and Wilma Bradbeer, eds., The Correspondence of William James: William and Henry, 3 vols., Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1992-94. An essential supplement to Edel and Lubbock.
NOTEBOOKS
Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers, eds., The Complete Notebooks of Henry James, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
CRITICISM
This highly selective list includes some groundbreaking works, some works of unusually sustained influence, and for the general student some especially helpful titles. A few studies are included because of their relevance to decisions made for the present edition.
Michael Anesko, “Friction with the Market”: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
John Auchard, Silence in Henry James: The Heritage of Symbolism and Decadence, University Park: Penn State Press, 1986.
Millicent Bell, Meaning in Henry James, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Sara Blair, Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Peter Buithenhuis, The Grasping Imagination: The American Writings of Henry James, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.
Oscar Cargill, The Novels of Henry James, New York: Macmillan, 1961.
Sarah B. Daugherty, The Literary Criticism of Henry James, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981.
Jonathan Freedman, Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Roger Gard, ed., Henry James: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968.
Susan M. Griffin, The Historical Eye: The Texture of the Visual in Late James, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.
———, ed., Henry James Goes to the Movies, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
Beverly Haviland, Henry James’s Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and The American Scene, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Richard Hocks, Henry James and Pragmatistic Thought: A Study in the Relationship Between the Philosophy of William James and the Literary Art of Henry James, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.
Philip Horne, Henry James and Revision, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Roslyn Jolly, Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Vivien Jones, Henry James the Critic, London: Macmillan, 1984.
Dorothea Krook, The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.
F. O. Matthiessen, Henry James: The Major Phase, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1944.
David McWhirter, ed., Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
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Perosa, Henry James and the Experimental Novel, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978.
Richard Poirier, The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Early Novels, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Ross Posnock, The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
John Carlos Rowe, The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Epistemology of the Closet, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Mark Seltzer, Henry James and the Art of Power, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Hugh Stevens, Henry James and Sexuality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Adeline R. Tintner, The Museum World of Henry James, Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1986; The Book World of Henry James: Appropriating the Classics, Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1987; The Cosmopolitan World of Henry James, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991; Henry James and the Lust of the Eyes: Thirteen Artists in His Work, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993; Henry James’s Legacy: The Afterlife of His Figure and Fiction, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998; The Twentieth-Century World of Henry James: Changes in His Work after 1900, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
Priscilla Walton, The Disruption of the Feminine in Henry James, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Viola Hopkins Winner, Henry James and the Visual Arts, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1970.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry James, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
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