Henry James and the visual

Introduction : the cultural varieties of visual experience

Classifying Donatello : the visual aesthetics of American exceptionalism

A "dark spot" in the picturesque : the aesthetics of polygenism in "A landscape painter"

Rules of engagement : the arch-romance of visual culture in The American

The scarlet feather : racial phantasmagoria in What Maisie knew

Pullman's progress : the politics of the picturesque in The American scene

Epilogue : America seen.