... contesting ges- tures, affirm the social structures of its time. Henry James seems particularly susceptible to this reading. Was he not a genteel Anglophile who fled the America of the Gilded Age and shrank, one might assume, from engagement in the contests of class, deepening in his lifetime...

..., a truly persuasive book. One awaits the next round with interest. EVELYNBIRGE VITZ New York University James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769. By FREDERICKA. POTTLE.New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, 1985 (1966). xviii + 606 pp...

...Lyon N. Richardson Richard Nicholas Foley. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1944. Pp. 169. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Lyon N. Richardson 371 Henry James: The Major Phase. By F. 0. MATTHIESSEN.New...

...James R. Baker Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 JAMES JOYCE : AFFIRMATION AFTER EXILE By JAMES R. BAKER Nay, shall not such as these have part, because of that high, original purpose which remembering painfully or by way of prophecy...

...Mildred E. Hartsock Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 HENRY JAMES AND THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN By MILDREDE. HARTSOCK More eloquently than any other theorist of fiction, Henry James in- sisted upon the obligation of the novelist to convey...

... of this latter book, said : “Mr. BIunden has nothing new to tell us CARLJ. WEBER Colby College Henry James and the Expanding Horizon. By OSBORNANDREAS. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1948. Pp. xv+ 179. $3.50. Mr. Andreas’ method...

...J. C. Levenson Robert F. Sayre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. xiii + 212 pp. $4.75. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 98 REVIEWS The Examined Self: Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, Henry James...

...Stephen L. Mooney Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 JAMES, KEATS, AND THE RELIGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS By STEPHENL. MOONEY Although the principal characters of Henry James’s The Golden Bowl are all experienced travelers...

... James Thomson: The Castle of Indolence and Other Poems. Edited by ALAN D. MCKILLOP.Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1961. Pp. xii + 222. $5.00. Since 1908, when James Thomson’s Seasons appeared in two definitive edi- tions, scholars have awaited a similar treatment of the lesser...

... of it. SHERBO Michigan State University ARTHUR James Fenimore Cooper and the Development of American Sea Fiction. By THOMASPHILBRICK. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1961. Pp. xi + 329. $6.25. This book is a successful attempt to place the sea novels...

.... REVIEWS Diaries and Correspondence of James Losh. Vol. I: Diary, 1811-1823; Vol. 11: Diary, 1824-1833, and Letters to Charles, 2nd Earl Grey and Henry Brougham. Edited by EDWARDHUGHES. Publications of the Surtees Society, Vols. 171, 174. Published for the Society by Andrews & Co...

...Haskell M. Block Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 JAMES JOYCE AND THOMAS HARDY By HASKELLM. BLOCK We do not normally think of the work of James Joyce as in any way related to that of Thomas Hardy. For Joyce had little regard...

... us to hear them. JAMES R. CALDWELL Usiwersity of California Ammican Literary Pioneer: A Biographical Study of James A. Hillhouse. By CHARLESTABB HAZELRIW. New York: Bookman Associates, 1953. Pp. 226. $4.00. Mr. Hazelrigg...

... with an interest in the general contentions-and be left to wonder what is at issue. ANNE. HERTHOFF U n ivei-sit y ojMassa ch usel IS, nos t on The Unfolding $“The Seasons”: A Sttrdy cf James Thomson’s Poem. By KALPHCOHEN. Baltimore...

... difficult and expensive to publish monographs, the McGill-Queen’s University Press is hardly to be congratulated for publishing this work in its present form. WALTERE. REX University of Calfol-nia,Berkeley Henry James and ihe...

...CARL S. SMITH Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 ∗ Several colleagues and friends were very helpful in the preparation of this essay, particularly Professor Charles Feidelson, Christopher Herbert, and Jane S. Smith. JAMES’S TRAVELS, TRAVEL WRITINGS...

... and Culler have to of- fer. W. DAVIDSHAW University of Toronto Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the “Oxford English Dictionary.” By K. M. ELISABETHMURRAY. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977...

...William Riley Parker Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 MILTON ON KING JAMES THE SECOND By WILLIAMRILEY PARKER In the first published life of Milton, Anthony h Wood included a bibliography of Milton’s printed works, the thirty-fourth...

... track. ROBERTE. HELBLING Uniuersity of Utah The Concept of Ambiguity-the Example of James. By SHLmiI-rH KihihioN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 257 pp. $19.00. Shlomith Rimmon is hardly the first...

...Beth Blum This essay uses “self-help” guides to James Joyce as an occasion to illuminate the buried history of modernism’s engagement with popular morality. It suggests that the birth of Joyce’s aesthetic—and, by extension, of modernism more broadly—is attributable to early twentieth-century...