A Self among Others : Henry James As a Biographer Book

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Preface	xi
Chapter 1	Introduction	1
Chapter 2	A Talent in the Fact: Henry James's Theory of Biography	3
	Shakespeare's Curse	3
	The Real Right Subject	8
	Matters of Fact and Truth	11
	An Appropriate Form	18
	The Ideal Biographer	23
	The Deeper Psychology	35
	The Trajectory of Genius	39
	Essential Unities	48
Chapter 3	Hawthorne's Room: Artistic Unity in James's Hawthorne	51
	A Small Volume	51
	Questions of Criticism	54
	The Master of Lightness	69
	Within the Chamber	78
	Quincy Street	86
	Parallel Lives	96
	The Usurpation	100
Chapter 4	A Self Among Others: The Failure of Unity in James's Story	105
	Resisting Story	105
	The Critique of Story	113
	Representing Story	123
	Diffusion and Disunity	132
	The Sense of Rome	136
	The Method of Memory	145
	Usurpation Revisited	153
	The Compensations of Innovation	156
	Mediated Perspectives	159
	Subtle Subversions	162
Chapter 5	Essential Unities: The Achievement of Jamesian Biography	165
	Works Cited	169