Henry James and Queer Modernity

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Indiscreet anatomies and protogay aesthetes in Roderick Hudson and The Europeans; 2. The elusive queerness of 'queer comrades': The Tragic Muse and 'The Author of 'Beltraffio"; 3. The Turn of the Screw, or: The Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen; 4. Masculinity 'changed and queer' in The Ambassadors; 5. Gratifying 'the eternal boy in us all': Willa Cather, Henry James and Oscar Wilde; 6. 'The other half is the man': the queer modern triangle of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and Henry James; Coda: 'Nobody is alike Henry James': Stein, James and queer futurity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Eric Haralson is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has published articles in such journals as American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Literature, and has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Henry James (1998). He is also the editor of the two-volume Encyclopedia of American Poetry (1998, 2001).

'... there are scintillating readings in Henry James and Queer Modernity, not least of Roderick Hudson, The Tragic Muse and The Ambassadors. These are combined with shrewd insights, considerable erudition and writing of rare panache.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Brilliantly reasoned, witty and erudite study ...' The Henry James Review 'Henry James and Queer Modernity is inspired and essential for the way it makes James's sexuality not only a positive part of his signature aesthetic but a source of trenchant cultural critique beyond what we normally expect from him ... offers up an important theory of the relations among art, sex and politics.' Modernism/Modernity