Portrait of A Novel (51 page)

   Rome in, 152

   sales of, 239–40

   scenery in, 142

   scene shift to Italy in, 124

   sense of leisure in, 5–6

   sequel to, 333

   serialization of, xviii, xix, 24, 49, 60, 71, 101, 103, 104, 130, 166, 173, 174, 208–15, 217–21, 257

   sexuality in, xvi, 237–38, 277, 326–30, 333

   style of, 7–8

   time gaps in, 159–61, 222–23

   two-character scenes in, 106

   Villa Castellani in, 123, 124

   writing of, xvii, xviii, xxiv, 4, 45, 92, 103–4, 166, 208, 214, 264, 267, 297

   
see also
specific characters

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
(Joyce), 10

Posillipo, 92, 94

Powers, Hiram, 126, 149

pragmatism, 32, 105, 320

Pragmatism
(William James), 320

Prelude, The
(Wordsworth), 153

Pride and Prejudice
(Austen), 5

Principles of Psychology, The
(William James), 102, 115–16, 234–35

Private Life of Henry James, A
(Gordon), 29, 315

Problem in Greek Ethics, A
(Symonds), 84, 170

Problem in Modern Ethics, A
(Symonds), 84, 170

“Professions for Women” (Woolf), 253

progressive humanism, 209

proposal scenes, 72–76

Protestants, in Rome, 146

Proust, Marcel, 231, 251, 330

publishing:

   British, 252–53

   in U.S. vs. UK, 239–41

Quarterly Review,
244

Queensberry, Marquess of, 83

Radcliffe, Anne, 112

Radcliffe College, 282

“Realism Wars,” 246

realist fiction, 25–26, 314

Red and the Black, The
(Stendahl), 98

Reef, The
(Wharton), 330

Reform Club, 79, 102, 296

regionalism, 246

Rhode Island, 19

Rhode Island Board of Enrolment, 19

Richardson, H. H., 258

Risorgimento, 150

Robinson, Hyacinth (char.), 98, 100

“Rodman the Keeper” (Woolson), 129

romances, 36, 69

“Roman Fever” (Wharton), 206

Rome, xviii, 59, 88,
119,
134, 141, 155, 159

   artists in, 147

   Carnival in, 152–53

   Constance Fenimore Woolson’s burial in, 183, 188

   as crossroads, 142–43

   expatriates in, 138, 142, 145, 149–50, 166, 167, 226, 319

   HJ in, 127, 141–42, 143–44, 151–54, 166, 172, 173, 175, 297

   HJ’s imprint for later visitors on, 143–44

   Isabel Archer in, 141–43, 149, 150, 174, 222, 225–26, 269–70, 271, 312, 325, 327–34

   Michael Gorra in, 152, 188

   Nathaniel Hawthorne in, 143, 145, 147, 152, 205

   Protestant Cemetery in, 188, 205

Romola
(Eliot), 57–58

Roosevelt, Theodore, 79

Rose, Charles, 47–50

Rose, Charlotte Temple, 49

Rose, Sir John, 49

Rosebery, Lord, 104, 165

Rosier, Edward (char.), 125, 222–25, 228–29, 232, 274

Russia, 38, 315

Ruth
(Gaskell), 195

Rye, xii, xxi, xxiv, 79, 81, 88, 90, 177, 296, 298, 309, 320, 322

Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 20

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 18

St. James’s Theater, 289–91

Samoa, 286

Sand, George, 192, 198

San Diego, Calif., 308

San Francisco earthquake, xxii

San Remo, 166

Sargent, John Singer, xx, 100, 125, 146, 169–71, 224, 289, 322, 334

Savannah, Ga., xx

Scandinavia, theater in, 288

Scarlet Letter, The
(Hawthorne), xx, 36

Scenes of Clerical Life
(Eliot), 59

Schubert, Franz, 111

Scott, Sir Walter, 196, 240

Scribner, xvi, xxiii, 241, 307–8, 318–19

Scribner’s,
43, 104

Scudder, Horace, 241–42

Second Mrs. Tanqueray
(Pinero), 289

Secret Agent, The
(Conrad), 253

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 187

Seeley, J. R., 210

“Self-Reliance” (Emerson), 52, 114–15, 252

sentimental fiction, 25

Serao, Matilde, 90

sexuality:

   in Anglo-American literature, 253

   in
The Awkward Age,
90, 204, 294

   in
The Bostonians,
282

   in French novels, 193–96, 201–4, 244, 252, 253

   in HJ’s works, 90, 196, 199, 303–4

   in literature, 90, 198–203

   in
The Portrait of a Lady,
xvi, 234–36, 237–38, 277, 326–30, 333

Shakespeare, William, 194, 269, 288

Shaw, George Bernard, 288, 290, 292

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 178

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 153, 178, 188, 226

Sicily, 226

Sidney, Sir Philip, 74

Siena, 94, 126

“Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (Eliot), 66–67

Silsbee (sea captain), 178

slavery, 251

Son of the Soil, A
(Oliphant), 214

Sons and Lovers,
253

Spectator,
220, 231, 242

Spencer, James, 61

Sportsman’s Sketches
(Turgenev), 39, 315

Stabilimento Chitarin, 168

Stackpole, Henrietta (char.), 52–54, 66, 70, 72, 100, 105–7, 131, 135, 136, 141, 220–21, 227, 268, 269, 270, 275, 313, 314, 325

Stanford University, xxii

Stendahl, 98

Stephen, James Fitzjames, 193–94

Stephen, Leslie Kenneth, 194

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 100, 245, 248, 252, 286

Stockton, Frank, 243

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 25

Stonehenge, 176

Story, William Wetmore, 125, 142, 146–47, 149–50, 188, 317

“Story of a Year, The” (Henry James), 23

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 25, 209

stream of consciousness, 230, 234–36

Strether, Lambert (char.), 91, 180, 303–5

Strindberg, August, 288

Strutt, Arthur, 147

Sturgis, Howard, 50, 298

Sturgis, Russell, 49–50

sublime, Kantian, 159

Sumner, Charles, 148

Swedenborg, Emmanuel, 14

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 197

Switzerland, 28, 161, 208

Symonds, John Addington, 83–86, 169–70, 181, 188

Syracuse, N.Y., 14

Tale of Two Cities, A
(Dickens), 216

Taylor, Bayard, 146

Temple, Catherine James, 49

Temple, Mary (Minny), 21–22, 108, 123, 315, 321

   illness and death of, 27–29, 30, 46, 47, 260, 264

   as original of Isabel Archer, 27, 46–50

Temple, Robert, 49

Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(Hardy), 195

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 63, 99, 215, 234, 242, 244, 245, 247

theater:

   in France, 287

   HJ and, 170, 181, 286–92, 293, 294

   as popular art, 288

   in Scandinavia, 288

Time and Tide,
88

Tintoretto, 64, 137, 182

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 53, 307

Todorov, Tzvetan, 86, 159, 184

Tóibín, Colm, 91

Tolstoy, Leo, 113, 160, 252, 271, 303, 332

Torquay, 296

To the Lighthouse
(Woolf), 236

Touchett, Daniel (char.), 3–4, 5–6, 49–50, 70, 73–74, 124, 125, 325

   death of, 107–9, 111–12, 124, 134, 218, 241, 316–17

Touchett, Mrs. (char.), 4, 7–9, 46, 51–53, 69, 71, 73, 111, 114, 125, 134, 136, 159, 227, 260, 314

Touchett, Ralph (char.), 4, 6, 9–10, 46, 48, 50–51, 54, 70, 71, 107–8, 135, 136, 141, 142, 214, 221, 230, 321

   death and funeral of, 324–26, 333

   illness of, 3, 19, 27–28, 88, 124, 162, 166, 226–27, 238, 274–75, 313, 329

   Isabel Archer as means to fulfill desires of, 67, 110–11, 162–64, 315–17

   Isabel Archer’s inheritance and, 109–11, 162, 279, 316–17

   lack of occupation of, 19, 78, 124

   mutual dislike between Gilbert Osmond and, 134, 136, 156, 162–63, 164, 223, 228, 238, 316

Townsend, Morris (char.), 70

transcendentalism, 17, 265

“Transcendentalist, The” (Emerson), 114

Treacherous Years, The
(Edel), 289

Treasure Island
(Stevenson), 245, 248

Trilling, Lionel, 98

Trollope, Anthony, 61, 160, 219–20, 234, 245, 246

   death of, 264, 267

   HJ’s critique of, 265

Turgenev, Ivan, 38–39, 68, 91, 92, 96, 165, 197–98, 250, 315

   characters of, xxiv, 39–40, 248

   death of, 200, 249, 264

   HJ on, 58, 200, 265–66

Turin, 42

Turner, J. M. W., 102

Twain, Mark, xix, 33, 36, 143, 210, 239

Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,” 34

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe), 25

Under Western Eyes
(Conrad), 218

Union College, 14

United States, 304

   business worshipped in, 15, 34

   changes in, 306–7

   divorce in, 273

   estrangement of youth from, 31

   exceptionalism of, 36, 114–15, 278

   Gilded Age of, 33–34, 72, 251, 259, 306

   history of, 36

   HJ on life and identity of, 31, 32, 33, 34–37, 41–42, 53–54

   HJ’s returns to, xv, xvii, 34, 80, 257–64, 305–8, 320–21

   HJ’s works pirated in, 42

   isolation of, 32

   James family isolated from, 15–16

   as novelists’ subject, 24

   novel of manners in, 26

   optimism in, 315

   past and future in, 149–50

   plutocracy of, 306

   pragmatism in, 32

   relationship of Europe to, 114–15, 126, 278, 305

   writing about, 129

Urban VII, Pope, 144–45

utilitarianism, 315

Valéry, Paul, 88

Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 109

vaporettos, 167

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 250–51

Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(William James), 13, 260, 320

Venetian Life
(Howells), 23

Venice, 23, 60, 84, 85, 91, 126, 141

   
The Aspern Papers
set in, 178–79

   Constance Fenimore Woolson in, 181–82, 185

   expatriates in, 167, 168–69

   HJ in, xviii, xxiv, 28, 78, 127, 166–73, 174, 183–85, 187, 208, 214, 258

   Michael Gorra in, 188

   tourism in, 167, 188

   
The Wings of the Dove
set in, 187

Verver, Maggie (char.), 90, 109, 237, 301–5, 327, 330

Viardot, Pauline, 39

Victoria, Crown-Princess of Prussia, 128

Victoria, Queen of England, 128, 194

Victorian novels:

   business of, 203

   decline of, 245–46

   HJ’s critique of, 64, 74, 265

   limits on autonomy in, 278

   as “loose baggy monsters,” 64

   marriage plots in, 68–69

   multiple plots in, 25, 63–64, 215–17

   
The Portrait of a Lady
and, xvi–xvii, xviii, 140

   self-censorship in, 74, 157

   serialization of, 208–21

   sexuality in, 195–96

   three-volume, 240, 241, 252–53

Villa Brichieri-Colombi, 176–78

Villa Castellani, 122–24

Villette
(Brontë), 131, 241

Virgil, 231

Virginian, The
(Wister), 148

Viztelly, Henry, 203, 252

Wagner, Cosima, 92–93

Wagner, Richard, 44, 92–94, 95, 130

Walpole, Hugh, 89, 298

Walsh, Catherine, 33

Warburton, Lord (char.), 3–4, 6–7, 10, 51, 133, 142–43, 148, 155–56, 163, 164, 268, 325–26, 328

   Isabel Archer’s rejection of, 66, 70–76, 106–7, 113, 136, 156–57, 218, 228, 329

   Pansy Osmond courted by, 226–30, 274

War of 1812, 17

Washington, D.C., 40, 85, 212, 259, 290, 323

Weisbuch, Robert, 35

Wells, H. G., xxii, 289

Westminster Review,
58

Wharton, Edith, 36, 79, 91, 139, 149, 206–7, 241, 307, 330

   sales of, xii

Whistler, James McNeill, 146

Whitchurch-on-Thames, 48

White Mountains, 22, 308, 321

Whitman, Walt, 19, 323

Wilde, Oscar, 200, 279, 297

   HJ’s dislike of, 85, 290

   homosexuality of, 78, 83, 85, 290, 299

   as playwright, 288, 290, 291–92

Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Prussia, 128

Wilson, Woodrow, 323

Wind in the Willows, The
(Grahame), 49

Wisconsin, 27, 32

Wister, Owen, 148

Wister, Sara Butler, 148

Wolseley, Sir Garnet, 61

women, condition of, 72, 253

Woolf, Virginia, xvi, 88, 194, 231, 235–36, 249, 253, 302, 321

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 94, 128–32, 174–88, 315

   death of, 182–86, 266

   depression of, 180, 182–83, 186

   on
The Portrait of a Lady,
175, 243, 284

Wordsworth, William, 74, 153

World War I, 322–24

Zhukovsky, Paul, 44, 78, 91–96, 101, 130, 131, 198

Zola, Émile, 204, 246, 250–53, 265, 271

   at Gustave Flaubert’s
cénacle,
39, 96, 197, 199

   HJ’s opinion of, 90, 198, 201–3

   naturalism and, 26, 200, 249, 283

   translation of, 203, 304

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. His books include
After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie
;
The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany
; and, as editor, the Norton Critical Edition of William Faulkner’s
As I Lay Dying
. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with the Balakian award of the National Book Critics Circle for his work as a reviewer. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.