A superficial reading of Henry James: preoccupations with the material world

Pt. I. Turning to matter in Henry James

Ch. 1. Revolving heroines

Ch. 2. culture of faulty parallels

Pt. II. Practical aesthetics

Ch. 3. properties of touch (The spoils of Poynton)

Ch. 4. reproduction painting ("the liar," "the real thing," The tragic muse)

Ch. 5. Bodies, papers, and persons (The Aspern papers, "the birthplace")

Ch. 6. Adulterous matter (A London life, The sacred fount, The ambassadors)

Pt. III. matter of literary criticism

Ch. 7. Literary studies as sublimated physicality

Ch. 8. color of air : new materialism.