Writing the self: Henry James and America

Letting yourself go: James arrives in twentieth-century America

Surrendering to the messages of New York

Boston and Cambridge: initiations from the past

Asking 'as few questions as possible' in Arcadian New England

Hearing the voices of the South

'Unwritten history': the romance of James's Civil War stories

'Doing something' for the soldiers of the Civil War

Life-writing for the man of letters

'An influence beyond my notation': the self-reflexive figures of 'The jolly corner'

Opening doors into The sense of the past

'A round of visits': effects achieved 'without the aid of the ladies'

Waking up to 'some pretty big things' in The Ivory tower.