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...Wendy Graham Duke University Press 2007 Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James . By J. Hillis Miller. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2005. xiii, 350 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890...