For Further Reading
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.