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5. What would you say is an accurate characterization of Merton Densher? He thinks too much? He’s weak? He has flaws but is essentially a good man? He begins ill and ends well? He is despicable? Instead of doing what he did, what should he have done?

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Bibliography and Reference

Edel, Leon, and Dan H. Laurence. A
Bibliography of Henry James.
1957. Third edition, revised with the assistance of James Rambeau. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.

Foley, Richard Nicholas.
Criticism in American Periodicals of the Works of Henry James from
1866 to I916. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1944.

Freedman, Jonathan, ed.
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

James, Henry.
The Notebooks of Henry James.
Edited by F. O. Matthiessen and Kenneth B. Murdock. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947.

Putt, S. Gorley.
Henry James:
A
Reader’s
Guide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.

Stafford, William T.
A Name, Title, and Place Index to the Critical Writings of Henry James.
Englewood, CO: Microcard Editions, 1975.

Taylor, Linda J.
Henry James,
1866-19I6:
A Reference Guide.
Boston, G. K. Hall, 1982.

Biography

Dupee, Frederick W.
Henry James.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.

Edel, Leon.
Henry James: A Life.
New York: Harper and Row, 1985. A condensed and revised version of Edel’s original five-volume biography
Henry James
(1953-1972).

___.
Henry James: The Master:
1901-1916. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972. This final volume of Edel’s five-volume biography covers the last period of James’s life.

___ ,and Gordon N. Ray.
Henry James and
H. G. Wells:
A Record of Their Friendship, Their Debate on the Art of Fiction, and Their Quarrel.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958.

Horne, Philip.
Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition.
Oxford: Clarendon Press and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Matthiessen, F. O.
The James Family.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.

Monteiro, George.
Henry James and John Hay: The Record of a Friendship.
Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1965.

Moore, Harry T.
Henry James.
New York: Viking Press, 1974.

Letters

Edel, Leon, ed.
Henry James: Selected Letters.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987.

Horne, Philip, ed.
Henry James: A Life in Letters.
New York: Viking Press, 1999.

Lubbock, Percy, ed.
The Letters of Henry James.
New York: Scribner, 1920.

Powers, Lyall H., ed.
Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters,
1900-1915. New York: Scribner’s, 1990.

Literary Criticism and Commentary

Allen, Elizabeth.
A Woman’s Place in the Novels of Henry James.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984.

Anderson, Quentin.
The American Henry James.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1957.

Auchard, John.
Silence in Henry James: The Heritage of Symbolism and Decadence.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986.

Banta, Martha.
Henry James and the Occult: The Great Extension.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1972.

Bloom, Harold, ed.
Henry James.
New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

Bowden, Edwin T.
The Themes of Henry James: A System of Observation Through the Visual Arts.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1956.

Bradbury, Nicola.
Henry James: The Later Novels.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.

Bradley, John R., ed.
Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire.
Introduction by Sheldon M. Novick. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Cameron, Sharon.
Thinking in Henry James.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Crews, Frederick C.
The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957.

Freedman, Jonathan.
Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990.

______, ed.
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James.
New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Gard, Roger, ed.
Henry James: The Critical Heritage.
London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968.

Hocks, Richard A. Henry James: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Hocks, Richard A.
Henry James and Pragmatist 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.

Holland, Laurence B.
The Expense of Vision: Essays on the Craft of Henry James.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.

James, Henry.
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces.
With an introduction by Richard P. Blackmur. New York: Scribner’s, 1937.

—.
Henry James’ Shorter Masterpieces, Volume 2.
Edited by Peter Rawlings. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, and Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble Books, 1984.

—.
The Portable Henry James.
Edited and with an introduction by John Auchard. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.

Krook, Dorothea.
The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

McWhirter, David.
Desire and Love in Henry James: A Study of the Late Novels.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Matthiessen, F. O.
Henry James: The Major Phase.
London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1944.

Pippin, Robert B.
Henry James and Modem Moral Life.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Rowe, John Carlos.
Henry Adams and Henry James: The Emergence of a Modem Consciousness.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1976.

Seltzer, Mark. Henry James
and
the Art of Power. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Sicker, Philip.
Love and the Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Henry James.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Stevens, Hugh.
Henry James and Sexuality.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Williams, Merle A.
Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Theater, Fictional Portray, and Film

Bradley, John R., ed.
Henry James on Stage and Screen.
New York: Pal-grave, 2000.

Griffin, Susan M., ed.
Henry James Goes to the Movies.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

James, Henry.
The Complete Plays of Henry James.
Edited by Leon Edel. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1949.

Kossmann, Rudolph R.
Henry James: Dramatist.
Groningen, Netherlands: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969.

Lodge, David.
Author,
Author. New York: Viking, 2004. A novel based on James’s life in the 1880s and 1890s.

Toibin, Colm.
The Master.
New York: Scribner, 2004. A fictionalized account of James’s life.

Rock on the Rhine River associated with a number of legendary tales; in the commonest form, the Lorelei is the spirit of a maiden who drowned herself in despair over a faithless lover and who now acts as a siren luring fishermen to their deaths.

Mountain ridge (French).

Greek god, protector of cattle, sheep, and travelers, who was a messenger of the gods and guided the dead to the underworld; son of Zeus.

Let’s not speak of it further (French).

In Victorian England to have a coach with four horses was a sign of genuine affluence.

Aunt Maud Lowder’s elegant house, a mansion on Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, in an upper-crust section of London.

Latin name for the outermost limit of the inhabited world; hence, barren and cold.

Densher is thinking of Kate’s visit to her father in the novel’s opening scene.

Corruption of the Sanskrit word
Jagannatha,
the manifestation of the Hindu god Krishna. The deity was honoured at a festival in which wooden images of the god were placed in an extremely heavy, highly carved chariot (car) that was pulled forward by hundreds of followers. Contemporary Europeans erroneously believed that devotees threw themselves under the wheels of the chariot to be crushed; hence, the colloquial usage of “Juggernaut” as a relentless, overpowering, and irrational force.

Tourist guide.

The London firm of John Murray published tourist handbooks.

The “it” refers to Mrs. Stringham’s imagination.

Colloquial term for tools or implements; in this context a reference to Mrs. Stringham’s literary skills being honed and ready. Elsewhere, James uses “nippers” to mean the nosepiece of a pair of eyeglasses.

Boston newspaper of the period.

Literary figures of the nineteenth century: Belgian dramatist and poet Maurice Maeterlinck; British critic Walter Pater; French nobleman and memoirist Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot; and German historian Ferdinand Adolf Gregorovius.

Allusion to Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Locksley Hall” (1842), in which European cosmopolitanism is ironically contrasted with English provincialism.

Fashion of the day (French).

German publishing house that specialized in reprinting British and American works.

“ ’Till then!” or “Soon!” (French).

Stagecoach.

Former (Latin).

Thomas Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), eminent Scottish-born essayist, philosopher, and man of letters.

Novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published in 1855.

Beautiful (memorable) moments; perhaps akin to the “spots in time” of poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Milly’s speech here comes close to revealing her true condition to Susie for the first time; it is the closest thing to a religious conviction or belief in the afterlife that we hear from Milly.

Fickle; flighty (French).

Milly and Susan are now visiting Lord Mark’s county estate; the scene is a garden party.

Diplomatic

Diplomatic reception held by an Indian prince.

Boorish people (French).

Beautiful eyes (French).

Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), a well-known Venetian portraitist.

More or less (French).

The portrait is of Lucrezia Panciatichi (c.1540); it is in the Uffizi museum in Florence. Lord Mark’s estate is a product of Henry James’s imagination.

Great minds think alike! (French).

Lord Mark’s estate.

Literally, a series of miniature scenes viewed through a pinhole in a special box; in this case, the designs seen in a kaleidoscope.

Peddlers’ carts.

The The term refers to the Eastern Roman Empire prior to the Turkish conquest in the fifteenth century.

Unhoped for; unexpected (French).

Allusion to Aunt Maud’s expensive porcelain from Sèvres, France.

Tawdry beginnings.

French short-story writer and novelist (1850-1893) of the “naturalist” school.

These ladies (French).

Discussions (French).

Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), Venetian painter whose figures wore rich, colourful costumes.