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Authors: MICHAEL GORRA
Fusato, Angelo, 84–85, 169, 181–82
Gainsborough, Thomas, 165
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 262
Garfield, James, 259
Garland, Hamlin, xxii
Garrick, David, 287
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 69, 195, 214
Gautier, Théophile, 199–200
Gemini, Countess (char.), 135, 140, 196, 207, 268–69, 275–78
Geneva, 179–80, 181
Genoa, 166
George II, King of England, xxii
Germany, 33, 322, 323
Germinal
(Zola), 198, 201
Gilded Age, 33–34, 72, 251, 259, 306
Giotto di Bodone, 130
Gladstone, William Ewart, 60, 99, 101
Glastonbury, 210
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 59, 141, 152, 154
Goncourt, Edmond de, 197–99, 202, 250
Goncourt, Jules de, 198
Goodwood, Caspar (char.), 9, 69, 72, 75, 106–7, 114, 133, 136, 227, 268
Isabel Archer’s final encounter with, 325–31
Isabel Archer’s rejection of, 157, 161–62, 163, 222
Gordon, Lyndall, 29, 128, 174, 182–83, 184, 315
Gosse, Edmund, 83, 84–85, 90–91, 170, 176, 286, 289, 323
HJ’s letters to, 197
Gould, Jay, 34
Gounod, Charles, 8
Gower, Lord Ronald, 297
Grahame, Kenneth, 49
Grant, Ulysses S., 134
Gray, John, 22, 28
Great American Novel, HJ’s mockery of, xv
Great Expectations
(Dickens), 98, 216
Greece, 161
Greek Slave
(Powers), 126
Greene, Graham, 160
Grove, George, 211
Guggenheim Collection, 181
Haggard, H. Rider, 252
Hardwick Court,
1,
47–49
Hardy, Thomas, xxii, 25, 64, 195, 245, 249, 304, 328
Harleth, Gwendolen (char.), 63, 66, 69, 231, 276
Harper’s,
xiv, 42, 128, 178, 209, 210, 246
Harte, Bret, 246
Harvard Annex, 282
Harvard Law School, 19, 20, 22
Harvard University, xvi, 17, 24, 32, 40, 50, 54, 306
Lawrence Scientific School at, 18
medical school at, 18
William James as professor at, 38, 101, 264
Haussman, Baron Georges-Eugène, 122
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, xx, 17, 25, 112, 148–49, 209, 315
on Europe and the American novelist, 31–32, 35, 278
in Florence, 122, 125–26
HJ’s book on, 34–37, 41, 44, 114
“imported” sense of sin of, 151
in Rome, 143, 145, 147, 152, 205
Hawthorne, Una, 205
Hay, John, 176, 182
Haymarket Theatre, 290
Hazard of New Fortunes, A
(Howells), 24
Hemingway, Ernest, 323–24
“Henry James, Jr.” (Howells), 243–47
Henry James at Work
(Bosanquet), 88, 101
Henry James Goes to Paris
(Brooks), 198
“History” (Emerson), 115
Hockley, E. M., 12
Hogarth Press, 88
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 19, 22, 32, 89
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 210
Holmes, Sherlock (char.), 286
Homer, 99, 231
Homer, Winslow, 191–92, 194, 205
homosexuality:
of Alice James, 282
of HJ, xviii, xxii, 13, 78–94, 170, 184, 185–86, 187, 290, 297–99, 304, 328
illegality of, 83–84
of John Addington Symonds, 83–86
of Oscar Wilde, 78, 83, 85, 290, 299
Horace Chase
(Woolson), 181
Hosmer, Harriet, 125, 147
Hôtel de l’Arno, 121
Houghton, H. O., 210
Houghton, Mifflin, 103, 208, 210, 211, 239–40
Household Words,
214
House of Mirth, The
(Wharton), 307
Howells, William Dean, 41, 129, 241
at
Atlantic,
23–25, 43, 101, 104, 166, 199, 208, 213, 215, 219, 246
HJ’s friendship with, 24–26, 130, 215
HJ’s letters to, 43, 53, 90, 96, 199, 202, 208, 211, 249, 284
as novelist, 37, 127, 148, 234, 239, 241–45, 251, 273
on
The Portrait of a Lady,
104, 243–47
Huckleberry Finn
(Twain), 36
Hughes, Linda K., 215, 219
Hugo, Victor, 243
“Humble Remonstrance, A” (Stevenson), 248
Hunt, William Morris, 15, 17
Hutton, R. H., 242, 331
Ibsen, Henrik, 83, 288
Ideal Husband, An
(Wilde), 290
illegitimacy, 195
Importance of Being Earnest, The
(Wilde), 83, 291
“Importance of Elsewhere, The” (Larkin), 79
Indian Summer
(Howells), 127, 148
Inferno
(Dante), 94
Interior in Venice, An,
169
Irving, Henry, 287
Isherwood, Christopher, 79–80
Italian Riviera, 166
Italy, 12, 134, 161
American expatriate community in, 125–26, 138, 146–50
Constance Fenimore Woolson in, 176
divorce barred in, 273
English expatriates in, 146–48
HJ in, 28, 37, 44, 165, 168, 172, 176, 181, 199
as new nation, 166
Risorgimento in, 150
standard of beauty in, 127
James, Alice (sister), 21, 38, 262, 265
Boston marriage of, 281–82
death of, 16, 266
European travels of, 33, 258
HJ’s letters to, xx, 93, 94, 103, 104, 128, 130, 180, 287
illness of, 16, 261, 263, 281, 320
inheritance of, 264
James, Alice (sister-in-law), 78, 101, 258, 282, 320, 321, 324
James, Bob, 15, 17, 27, 32, 261
in Civil War, 18
James, Henry:
as American in Europe, 259
on American life and identity, 31, 32, 33, 34–37, 41–42, 53–54
as American triumphalist, 242
appearance and personality of, xix–xx
aspirations to greatness by, xv
biographies of, 78
brand identity of, 42
British citizenship taken by, 323–24
Cambridge burial of ashes of, 261
career choices and, 16–17
as central figure in history of the novel, 237
childhood travels of, 15–16
cigarette smoking by, xxi
Civil War and, 18–19, 23, 77
commitment to his work by, 38
Constance Fenimore Woolson’s relationship with, 175–78, 179–82
correspondence burned by, 81
death of, 324
depression of, 319–20
disengagement from public life by, 16, 33
early writing career of, 20–21, 23, 24–25, 34
emotional inabilities of, 30
in engineering school, 15
Englishness of, 307
evil as conceived by, 273, 315–16
as expatriate, xii, xv, xxii, 31, 34, 54, 77–78, 79, 80, 95, 102, 126, 197, 239–40, 281, 305
family and background of, 13–16
family expectations and, 80
first adult European visit of, 12, 27–28, 126
French fluency of, 16, 123
at Harvard Law School, 19, 20
health of, 18–20, 27, 319–20, 322
homosexuality of, xviii, xxii, 13, 78–94, 170, 184, 185–86, 187, 290, 297–99, 304, 328
independence as value of, 126
inheritance of, 264
letters of, xxii–xxiii, 27, 28–30, 38, 59, 77, 80, 89–90, 105, 131, 184, 262, 264, 298, 299;
see also
specific recipients
letters to family by, 59, 91, 96, 101, 104, 138, 148, 149, 150, 153, 165, 198, 211
literary reputation of, 284–85
loneliness of, 88
longing for travel by, 27, 33
marriage refused by, xvii–xviii, 45, 77–81, 131, 175, 184
as “The Master,” xix
Max Beerbohm’s caricatures of, 300
on
Nana,
201–3
notebooks of, 264, 293–94
Order of Merit awarded to, 324
output of, 264
passing of parents’ generation noted by, 264–67
photographs and, xx, xxii–xxiii, 47,
255
portraits of, 17, 322, 333–34
at Quincy Street, 24, 26, 32
returns to America by, xv, xvii, 34, 80, 257–64, 305–8, 320–21
revisions by, xiv–xv, xxi, xxii–xxiii, 308, 309–19
scenic method of novelistic construction by, 21
secrecy in art of, 184
secretaries of, xxi–xxii, xxiv, 88, 165, 295, 297, 310, 321, 324
social nature of, 79, 97–98, 99, 165, 286
subsequent career of, 280–81
on taste and aestheticism, 137–38
transatlantic world of, 12, 37, 283
translation discouraged by, 250
William Dean Howells’s friendship with, 23–26, 130, 215
William James’s family and papers of, 78
on Winslow Homer, 191–92
writing habits of, xxi, 165, 168, 295, 318
James, Henry, works by:
“The Altar of the Dead,” 186, 266, 286
The Ambassadors,
xv, 37, 86, 91, 157, 180, 199, 293–94, 300, 303–5, 311
The American,
xvi, xxiii, 43, 44, 198, 201, 213, 250, 287–88, 292, 310
“American Journal,” 93–94, 99, 258–59, 267
The American Scene,
xv, xx, 34, 307, 309, 317
“The Art of Fiction,” xvii, 74, 194–95, 235, 246–49, 250–51, 267
The Art of the Novel,
318
The Aspern Papers,
86, 174, 178–79, 180, 185, 284
“The Author of ‘Beltraffio,’ ” 82–85, 86, 285
autobiography of, 20, 28, 123, 160, 259, 265, 321–22
The Awkward Age,
90, 204, 293–94
“The Beast in the Jungle,” 36, 87, 186–87, 315
The Bostonians,
176, 281–83, 287
“Brooksmith,” 30
character as central in, 40, 46–47, 74–75, 139, 242–43, 274
comic writing in, 268–69
Confidence,
44
consciousness depicted in, 199, 302–3, 304
critical successes of, 44
Daisy Miller,
xvi, xvii, xix, 10–11, 41–42, 99, 102, 141–42, 169, 188, 204–6, 211, 212, 244, 250, 277, 286, 287, 304, 321
deathbed scenes in, 107–9
“The Death of the Lion,” 86, 285
elaborate late style in, 294, 295, 301–2
endings of, 318
essays by, 280
The Europeans,
26, 43, 62
expatriates in, 37, 124, 134, 163, 280, 283, 300–301, 303, 309
“The Figure in the Carpet,” 86
free indirect discourse in, 302
“The Friends of the Friends,” 186, 266
ghost stories, 108, 186–87, 260, 266
The Golden Bowl,
90, 100, 109, 149, 157, 199, 232, 237, 300–305, 307–8, 312, 317, 327, 328
“Greville Fane,” 265
Guy Domville,
289–92, 293
Hawthorne,
34–37, 41, 44, 114, 163, 323
“An International Episode,” 42
international theme in, 37, 134, 280, 283, 300–301, 303, 309
In the Cage,
86
Italian Hours,
137, 225
“Italy Revisited,” 123, 138
The Ivory Tower,
318
“The Jolly Corner,” 82, 87, 186
journalism of, 96, 100, 104, 198, 318
kisses in, 327, 333
“The Last of the Valerii,” 160
“Lesson of the Master,” 82, 285
“London Town” planned by, 99
“Madame de Mauves,” 37, 160
“Madonna of the Future,” 127
major phase of, 157, 302–3
march of action in, 294
“The Middle Years,” xiv, 285, 288, 293
New York Edition of, xiii–xiv, xvi, xix, xxii–xxiii, 8, 100, 111, 211, 241, 266, 307–8, 309–19, 322;
see also
Portrait of a Lady, The,
revisions of
“The Next Time,” 285
Notes of a Son and Brother,
321–22
as not for everyone, 241
“Pandora,” 42
“A Passionate Pilgrim,” 37
“The Pension Beaurepas,” 42
pirating of, 42
plot in, 25, 40, 66, 244, 245
point of view in, 318
“Poor Richard,” 24
The Portrait of a Lady,
see
Portrait of a Lady, The
prefaces to, 312, 317–18, 332
The Princess Casamassima,
98, 100, 176, 282–83, 287, 318
“The Private Life,” 87
queer readings of, 187
“The Real Right Thing,” 266
“The Real Thing,” 30, 286
renunciations and solitude of, 87
reviews by, 28, 40–41, 58, 62–67, 201–3, 265–67
Roderick Hudson,
25, 34, 44, 78, 88, 123, 128, 148–49, 152, 213, 298, 332
“The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” 26, 185
“A Roman Holiday,” 152–53
“Roman Rides,” 37, 153–54, 159, 270
sales of, xii, xix, xxii, 43, 44, 112, 181, 212, 214, 219–20, 239–40, 284, 286, 287, 318–19, 322
scenic method in, 293–94
secular world of, 108–9, 317
The Sense of the Past,
318
sexuality in,
see
sexuality
A Small Boy and Others,
264, 321
The Spoils of Poynton,
293
stories about artists by, 285
for theater, 170, 181, 286–92, 293, 294
time in, 321
The Tragic Muse,
64, 180, 211, 275, 282–84, 287
Transatlantic Sketches,
34
“Travelling Companions,” 37
travel writing, 78, 123–24, 126, 137, 152, 167, 243, 280
The Turn of the Screw,
xix, 86, 186, 315, 326
use of Italian settings in, 138–39
“Venice,” 167, 171–72, 243