Table of Contents for Portrait of a Novel : Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Prologue: An Old Man in Rye

xiii

Part One A PREPARATION FOR CULTURE

1 The Girl in the Doorway

(9)

2 A Native of No Country

(19)

3 A Superstitious Valuation

(14)

4 Along the Thames

(12)

Part Two THE MARRIAGE PLOT

5 Her Empty Chair

(11)

6 Proposals

(9)

7 An Unmarried Man

(18)

8 A London Life

(10)

9 The Envelope of Circumstances

105

(16)

Part Three ITALIAN JOURNEYS

10 Bellosguardo Hours

121

(12)

11 Mr. Osmond

133

(8)

12 Stranieri

141

(14)

13 An Uncertain Terrain

155

(10)

14 A Venetian Interlude

165

(9)

15 Fenimore

174

(17)

Part Four SEX AND SERIALS, THE CONTINENT AND THE CRITICS

16 Maupassant and the Monkey

191

(17)

17 The Magazines

208

(14)

18 The Roccanera

222

(17)

19 The Art of Fiction

239

(18)

Part Five PUTTING OUT THE LIGHTS

20 The Altar of the Dead

257

(11)

21 "I Was Perfectly Free"

268

(12)

22 Working in the Dark

280

(13)

23 The Second Chance

293

(16)

24 Endgame

309

(26)

Acknowledgments

335

(2)

Sources and Notes

337

(28)

Index

365