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THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW Volume VII, Number 1 FaH, 1985 Table of Contents From the Editor........................................................................................................ 1 The Private Life of Peter Quin[t]: Origins of "The Turn of the Screw." By Leon Edel and Adeline Tintner..........2 In Defense of James's The Tragic Muse. By W. R. Macnaughton.....................................................5 "Something like the old dream of the secret of life": Henry James's Imaginative Vision and Romantic Inheritance, with special attention to the opening paragraphs of his Preface to The Spoils ofPoynton. By Laurens M. Dorsey........................................................................................13 Henry and Edith: "The Velvet Glove" as an "In" Joke. By Jean Frantz Blackall....................................21 Consecrated Diplomacy and the Concretion of Self. By Marcia Ian...................................................27 Thornton Wilder as Literary Cubist: An Acknowledged Debt to Henry James. By Lyall H. Powers..................34 Elizabeth Bowen and Henry James. By John Halperin................................................................45 Paul B. Armstrong, The Phenomenology of Henry James. Review by Donna Pryzbylowicz..........................48 Marcia Jacobson, Henry James and the Mass Market. Review by William Veeder...................................50 Jennifer Gribble, The Lady ofShalott in the Victorian Novel. Review by F. S. Schwarzbach.........................51 Ross Posnock, Henry James and the Problem of Robert Browning. Review by Phillip Sharp.........................52 From the Editor This issue of the Henry James Review marks the Society will retain complete editorial autonomy, vested in beginning of the end of an era. Volume 7, which will be the editors and editorial board of the journal. But Johns completed with a double issue devoted to The Portrait of a Hopkins will manufacture, distribute, and promote the jourLady (dated winter-spring, 1986, to be published early in nai, handle subscriptions and back orders (at rates that the 1987), will be the last volume put out here in Baton Rouge. preSS wm be announcing shortly), register copyright, mainWith volume 8, the journal will move under the wing of ^n production schedules, and, in short, manage all aspects the Johns Hopkins University Press. The HJR will still be of me business of publication. After January 1, 1987, all the publication of the Henry James Society, and individual business correspondence shouid be addressed to the Johns subscriptions wiU still include membership m the Society. R ^ University p^ at me address listed on the y^^ The editorial office will remain m Baton Rouge, and the J (Continued on o 33) Volume VU 1 Number 1 The Henry James Review FaU, 1985 Eliot, T. S. "On Henry James." In The Question of Henry James. Ed. F. W. Dupee. New York: Henry Holt, 1945. Holland, Laurence B. The Expense of Vision: Essays on the Craft of Henry James. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U P, 1964. Kawin, Bruce. The Mind of the Novel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U P, 1982. Matthiessen, F. O. Henry James: The Major Phase. New York: Oxford U P, 1944. Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Intentions in Architecture. Cambridge , MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology P, 1979. Poirier, Richard. The Comic Sense of Henry James. London: Chatio and Windus, 1960. Rowe, John Carlos. Henry Adams and Henry James: The Emergence of a Modern Consciousness. Ithaca and London: Cornell U P, 1976. See, Fred G. "Henry James and the Art of Possession." In American Realism: New Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist . Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins U P, 1982. Shakespeare, WiUiam. Hamlet. In The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. Ed. Sylvan Barnet. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Wegelin, Christof. The Image of Europe in Henry James. Dallas: Southern Methodist U P, 1958. Weinstein, Phüip M. Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U P, 1971. (Continued from p. 1) of the masthead of this issue. Until then, we wül continue to accept orders for volumes 1-7 (but not for later volumes) in Baton Rouge. So: the Henry James Review is changing. The issues coming out of Hopkins wül be smaller (seven by ten inches instead of eight-and-a-half by eleven) and longer than the number you are reading now (eighty instead of fifty-six pages). Once again we wül change page design, going from a ten-point double column to a twelve-point single column. But the cover design will remain the same, and, more importantly , so wUl the editorial...