Portrait of A Novel (46 page)

207—“
mustn’t think
”: Ibid., ch 16.

207—“
at Florence with
”: Ibid., ch 20.

CHAPTER 17: THE MAGAZINES

208—“
stifling calidarium
”: N, 223.

208—“
I am afraid
”: To Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 13 July 1881.

208—“
probably not less
”: To William Dean Howells, 23 August 1879.

209—
The two were
: See George J. Worth,
Macmillan’s Maga
z
ine, 1859–1907
(Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2003); and Ellery Sedgwick,
The Atlantic Monthly, 1857–1909
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994). On the economic necessity of serialization, see Howells, “The Man of Letters as Man of Business” (1893).

211—“
next long story
”
. . .
“
remember this
”: To William Dean Howells, 14–15 July 1879.

213—“
devoured in the American papers
”: To Frederick Macmillan, 28 December 1880.

213—“
stretch of months
”: To William Dean Howells, 5 December 1880.

213—“
been explicit as
”: To William Dean Howells, 11 November 1880.

213—“
strangely vague
”: To William Dean Howells, 5 December 1880.

213—“
after Isabel’s marriage
”: N, 13–14.

214—“
to be settled later
”: Ibid.

214—“
process and progress
”: Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund,
The Victorian Serial
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991), 243.

215—“
steady development
”: Ibid., 275.

218—“
no magazine
”: Joseph Conrad, 6 January 1908. In
Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad
, vol. 4:
1908–1911
, ed. Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 9–10.

219—“
slow, sure growth
”
. . .
“
whole
”: Hughes and Lund, 230.

219—
James’s income
: See Michael Anesko’s meticulous
“Friction with the Market”: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), Appendix B.

220—“
nothing can be
”:
The Spectator
, 6 November 1880.

220—“
considerably the most important
”:
The Nation
, 24 March 1881.

220—“
the reader feels
”:
The Nation
, 18 November 1880.

220—“
quite too lifelike
”:
The Examiner
, November 6 1880.

221—“
the author evidently
”: Ibid., December 4, 1880.

221—“
One afternoon, toward dusk
”: P, 559.

CHAPTER 18: THE ROCCANERA

222—“
will perhaps
”: P, 559.

223—“
if her husband
”: P, 562.

223—“
who died two
”: P, 564–65.

224—“
years had touched
”: P, 570.

225—“
these people
”: P, 567.

225—“
genius for upholstery
”: P, 588.

225—“
high house
”: Ibid. P, 566.

225—“
stern old Roman
”: Ibid.

225—
Palazzo Antici-Mattei
: See Charles S. Anderson,
Person, Place, and Thing in Henry James’s Novels
(Durham, NC: Duke University Pres, 1977), 292. See also Harry Brewster,
A Cosmopolite’s Journey
(London: Radcliffe Press, 1998), 182, a memoir by an expatriate of another generation who spent a part of his childhood there.

225—
Mattei family
: On their ownership of work by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, see Jonathan Harr,
The Lost Painting
(New York: Random House, 2005).

226—“
a row of
”: P, 566–67.

226—“
traditionary
”: P, 425.

227—“
reflective reader
”: P, 592.

228—“
there’s the difference
”
. . .
“
leading one?
”: P, 603–4.

228—“
received an impression
”: P, 611.

228—“
make him the reparation
”: P, 617.

228—“
play the part
”: P, 618.

229—“
The moment you
”: P, 625.

229—“
It lies in
”: P, 626.

229—“
has all the vivacity
”: PNY, 16.

230—“
service her husband had
”
. . .
“
terrors
”: P, 628.

230—“
he could change
”: P, 630.

230—“
stream of consciousness
”: William James,
Writings, 1878–1899
, 152.

231—“
make-believe
”
. . .
“
no retrospect
”:
Daniel Deronda
, ch. 1.

232—“
oblique view
”
. . .
“
impression of it
”: LC2, 1322.

232—“
He had told her
”: P, 633–34.

233—
free indirect discourse
: See, for starters, Dorrit Cohn,
Transparent Minds
:
Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978); Franco Moretti, “Serious Century,” in
The Novel
, vol. 1 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006); James Wood,
How Fiction Works
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008).

233—“
dark, narrow alley
”
. . .
“
one by one
”: P, 629.

234—“
everlasting weight
”: P, 638.

234—
her life go undramatized
: See Bell,
Meaning in Henry James
, 116–17.

234—“
solidity of specification
”: LC1, 53.

235—“
the different pace
”: William James,
Writings 1878–1899
, 987.

235—“
like one who should say
”: Ibid., 164.

235—“
defeated
”: To William James, 21 April 1884.

235—“
chamber
”: LC1, 52.

236—“
luminous halo
”: Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction,” in
The Common Reader
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1925), 154.

236—“
It is obviously
”: PNY, 16.

237—“
anxiously and yet ardently
”: PNY, 423.

238—“
was not a daughter
”
. . .
“
at all
”: P, 636.

238—“
indecent
”: P, 637.

238—“
her husband and Madame Merle
”: P, 639.

Chapter 19: The Art of Fiction

239—
Macmillan released
: For these bibliographical details, see Leon Edel and Dan Laurence,
A Bibliography of Henry James
, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), and David J. Supino,
Henry James: A Bibliographical Catalogue of a Collection of Editions to 1921
(Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006). The Robert Frost Library at Amherst College made its copy of the Macmillan edition available to me; for the Houghton, Mifflin, I used the copy belonging to the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College.

240—
Mudie’s
: The standard work remains Guinevere L. Griest,
Mudie’s Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970), to which I am indebted throughout this chapter.

241—“
gains in its
”: W. C. Brownell,
The Nation
, 2 February 1882.

241—
The New York Sun
: 27 November, 1881;
Californian
, January 1882; both in Hayes,
Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews
. Horace Scudder’s review appeared in the
Atlantic
for January 1882, and Margaret Oliphant’s in
Blackwood’s
for March 1882. Both appear in Bamberg.

242—Lippincott’s: See
The Contemporary Reviews
.

243—“
your talent, your style
”
. . .
“
like it
”:
Henry James Letters,
vol. 3, 528–35.

244—“
new school
”
. . .
“
Thackeray
”: Reprinted in Gard, 126–35.

244—“
at the exploits
”: Margaret Oliphant, “American Literature in England.”
Blackwood’s
, January 1883, 137.

244—“
principle that
”: L. L. Jennings, “American Novels,”
Quarterly Review
(January 1883), 225.

245—“
The indictment
”: To William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882.

245—“
as thick as blackberries
”: To William Dean Howells, 20 March 1883.

245—“
bright
,
troubled
”
. . .
“
conscience
”: Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Gossip on Romance,”
Longman’s Maga
z
ine
(November 1882), 189–90.

246—“
Boston Mutual Admiration Society
”: Jennings, 251.

246—“
to edge in
”
. . .
“
extent opened
”: LC1, 44. James’s essay first appeared in
Longman’s Maga
z
ine
for September 1884. Besant’s own lecture was published together with James’s in 1884 (Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co.) and appeared separately in 1902 (London: Chatto.) It is excerpted in Stephen Regan,
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader
(London and New York: Routledge, 2001).

247—“
course of dessert
”
. . .
“
impossible
”: LC1, 48.

247—“
psychological
”: LC1, 61.

248—“
a living thing
”: LC1, 54–55.

248—“
What is character
”: Ibid.

248—“
A Humble Remonstrance
”:
Longman’s Maga
z
ine
, December 1884.

249—“
That is the highest
”: E. M. Forster,
Aspects of the Novel
. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927), 45.

249—“
shallow optimism
”: LC1, 65.

249—“
on the principle
”: To William Dean Howells, 21 February 1884.

250—
Child wrote
: “Contributors’ Club,”
Atlantic
(May 1884), 724–27.

250—“
evaporate
”: To Auguste Monod, 17 December 1905.

250—“
had as yet
”: “Contributors’ Club,” 726.

250—“
galley-slaves
”: To Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 13 February 1884.

250—“
tepid soap
”: To William Dean Howells, 21 February 1884.

250—
Mario Vargas Llosa
: See his
Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary
, trans. Helen Lane (1975; repr., New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986), 220.

251—“
moral passion
”: LC1, 63.

251—“
the great American
”: To William Dean Howells, 21 February 1884.

251—“
brutal indecency
”: LC2, 861.

252—“
timidity
”: LC2, 880.

252—“
hard and fast
”: LC2, 549.

252—“
carnal side of man
”: LC2, 548.

253—“
the constant world-renewal
”: LC1, 107.

253—“
deeply in the quiet
”: LC1, 109.

253—“
impeded by the
”: Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women,” in
The Death of the Moth
(London: Hogarth Press, 1942); the essay originated as a talk given to the National Society for Women’s Service in 1931.