The theoretical dimensions of Henry James

Preface ; Chapter 1: Henry James and Modern Criticism: Some Version of Literary Mastery ; Chapter 2: Literary Influences ; Part I: James's ""Hawthorne"" and the American Anxiety of Influence ; Part II: James, Trollope, and the Victorian Anxiety of Influence ; Chapter 3: Feminist Issues: Women, Power, and Rebellion in ""The Bostonians"", ""The Spoils of Poynton"" and ""The Aspern Papers"" ; Chapter 4: Psychoanalytical Significances: The Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in ""The Turn of the Screw""

Chapter 5: Social Values: The Marxist Critique of Modernism and ""The Princess Casamassima"" Chapter 6: Phenomenological Hermeneutics: Henry James and Literary Impressionism ; Chapter 7: Forms of the Reader's Act: Author and Reader in the Prefaces to the New York Edition ; Phantoms ; Notes ; Index.