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Michael Anesko’s ‘Friction with the Market’: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship and his Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells, both published by Oxford University Press, have helped to reorient our critical attention to James as a working artist, not just an established Master. He is currently at work on a book about Nathaniel Hawthorne’s transatlantic reception.

Millicent Bell is Emerita Professor of English at Boston University, and has written on literary subjects from Shakespeare (Shakespeare’s Tragic Skepticism, Yale) to the modern novel. Her work on James includes Edith Wharton and Henry James (George Braziller/Peter Owen) and Meaning in Henry James (Harvard) as well as many essays.

Nicola Bradbury is Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading. Her books include Henry James: the later novels, the Oxford World Classics edition of The Portrait of a Lady and the Wordsworth Classics edition of The Golden Bowl.

Tamara L. Follini is a Senior Lecturer in English at Clare College, Cambridge and was the President of the Henry James Society in 2007. Her most recent publications include contributions to Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies and Tracing Henry James (forthcoming). She is also a General Editor of ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Compete Fiction of Henry James’.

Jonathan Freedman is a Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture (Stanford UP, 1991); The Temple of Culture: Assimilation, Aggression and the Making of Literary Anglo-America (Oxford, 2000) and Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity (Columbia UP, 2008). The essay here is part of a new project, provisionally entitled ‘The Affect of the Market’.

Jean Gooder, a Fellow Emerita of Newnham College, Cambridge, has edited the Penguin edition of The Education of Henry Adams and published on Henry James and Edith Wharton. Her interests are in the connections between Anglo-American and French writing.

Richard Gooder is a retired Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and an Editor of The Cambridge Quarterly. [End Page 1]

Philip Horne is a Professor in the English Department at University College London. He is the author of Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition (OUP, 1990); and editor of Henry James: A Life in Letters (Penguin, 1999). He has also edited Henry James, A London Life & The Reverberator; and Henry James, The Tragic Muse

Tim Lustig teaches at Keele University and is the author of Henry James and the Ghostly (1994).

Sergio Perosa is Emeritus Professor of English at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. His publications include The Art of F. S. Fitzgerald (1965), Henry James and the Experimental Novel (1978), American Theories of the Novel, 1793–1903 (1984), From Islands to Portraits (2000), Vie della narrativa americana (1980), Storia del teatro americano (1982), L’Albero della cuccagna (2004), and Transitabilità. Arti, paesi, scrittori (2005).

Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His edition of The Ambassadors is due to be published by Penguin in 2008.

Christopher Ricks is Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute. He is President of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

Max Saunders is Professor of English at King’s College London, where he teaches modern English, European, and American literature. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1996), the editor of Ford’s Selected Poems, War Prose, and (with Richard Stang) Critical Essays (Carcanet, 1997, 1999, 2002). [End Page 2]

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