Contemporary American Literature / Bibliographies and Study Outlines

by John Matthews Manly; Edith Rickert

5. Mr. James’s place in the sequence of great European novelists is as a follower of Balzac, Flaubert, De Maupassant, and Turgenev, and as a predecessor of Conrad (whose study of him listed below should be read).

6. Early in the nineties, a great change in method came about in James’s work (cf. Cambridge, III, 98, 103). Judge separately typical books written before this change and others written after; then read several books of the period of change and decide what happened and whether or not it enhanced the value of his work.

7. One of the remarkable facts about James’s style is its influence upon the critics who write about him. A close analysis of its qualities—sentence length, the order and placing of the parts of the sentence, punctuation, vocabulary, etc., might bring a more definite understanding of the reasons for this influence.

8. A comparison of the work and qualities of Henry and William James might be made a valuable contribution to criticism.

9. For a student familiar with Europe, a study of the reasons for James’s affinity with Europe and dislike for American life would make an interesting study.

10. What different types of reasons can you bring to show that Henry James is likely to be a permanent force in American literature?

Bibliography

• A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales. 1875.
• Transatlantic Sketches. 1875.
• Roderick Hudson. 1876.
• *The American. 1877.
• Watch and Ward. 1878.
• French Poets and Novelists. 1878.
• The Europeans. A Sketch. 1878.
• *Daisy Miller. A Study. 1879.
• An International Episode. 1879.
• Daisy Miller: A Study. An International Episode. Four Meetings. 1879.
• The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales. 1879.
• Hawthorne. 1879. (English Men of Letters.)
• The Diary of a Man of Fifty and A Bundle of Letters. 1880.
• Confidence. 1880.
• Washington Square. 1881.
• Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters. 1881.
• *The Portrait of a Lady. 1881.
• Daisy Miller: A Comedy. 1882. (Privately printed.)
• The Siege of London, The Pension Beaurepas, and The Point of View. 1883.
• Portraits of Places. 1883.
• Tales of Three Cities. 1884.
• A Little Tour in France. 1885.
• Stories Revived. 1885. (3 vols. of Short Stories.)
• The Bostonians. 1886.
• The Princess Casamassima. 1886.
• The Reverberator. 1888.
• The Aspern Papers. Louisa Pallant. The Modern Warning. 1888.
• Partial Portraits. 1888.
• A London Life. The Patagonia. The Liar. Mrs. Temperley. 1889.
• The Tragic Muse. 1892.
• The Lesson of the Master. The Marriages. The Pupil. Brooksmith. The Solution. Sir Edward Orme. 1892.
• The Real Thing and Other Tales. 1893.
• The Private Life. Lord Beaupré. The Visits. 1893.
• The Wheel of Time. Collaboration. Owen Wingrave. 1893.
• Picture and Text. 1893.
• Essays in London and Elsewhere. 1893.
• Theatricals. Two Comedies: Tenants. Disengaged. 1894.
• Theatricals. Second Series. The Album. The Reprobate. 1895.
• *Terminations. The Death of the Lion. The Coxon Fund. The Middle Years. The Altar of the Dead. 1895.
• Embarrassments. The Figure in the Carpet. Glasses. The Next Time. The Way It Came. 1896.
• The Other House. 1896.
• *The Spoils of Poynton. 1897.
• *What Maisie Knew. 1897.
• In the Cage. 1898.
• The Two Magics. The Turn of the Screw. Covering End. 1898.
• The Awkward Age. 1899.
• The Soft Side. 1900.
• The Sacred Fount. 1901.
• *The Wings of the Dove. 1902.
• The Better Sort. 1903. (Short stories.)
• *The Ambassadors. 1903.
• William Wetmore Story and His Friends. 1903.
• *The Golden Bowl. 1904.
• English Hours. 1905.
• The Question of Our Speech. The Lesson of Balzac: Two Lectures. 1905.
• The American Scene. 1907.
• Views and Reviews, Now First Collected. 1908.
• Italian Hours. 1909.
• *The Altar of the Dead. The Beast in the Jungle. The Birthplace, and Other Tales. 1909.
• The Finer Grain. 1910. (Short stories.)
• The Outcry. 1911.
• A Small Boy and Others. 1913. (Autobiography.)
• Notes of a Son and Brother. 1914. (Autobiography.)
• Notes on Novelists. With Some Other Notes. 1914.
• The Ivory Tower. 1917.
• The Sense of the Past. 1917.
• The Middle Years. 1917. (Autobiography.)
• Gabrielle de Bergerac. 1918. (Atlantic, 1860.)
• Travelling Companions. 1919. (7 stories originally published 1868-74.)
• A Landscape Painter. 1919. (4 stories originally published 1866-68.)
• Master Eustace. 1920. (5 stories originally published 1869-78.)
• The Letters of Henry James. 1920. (Selected and edited by Percy Lubbock.)

For further bibliographical references, see Cambridge, III (IV), 671.

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