The Catholic Side of Henry James

Preface; Calendar: chief items of Catholic interest in Henry James; Documentation; Part I. Bibliographical Leads, Historical Considerations; Part II. Representing Catholicity: 1. The Protestant base; 2. Liberalism; 3. The picturesque; 4. The question of religious audience; 5. Sacred seculars in the tales; 6. Sacred seculars: novel, letter, and notebook; 7. Death and literary form; Part III. The Narratives of Catholic Conversion: 1. Watch and Ward (1871); 2. Italian sketches and Italian tales (1870–5); 3. Roderick Hudson (1875); 4. The American (1876–7); 5. Attenuations: The Reverberator (1888); 6. Supersubtlety one: What Maisie Knew (1897); 7. Supersubtlety two: The Turn of the Screw (1898); Part IV. Pas de quatre: 1. Catholicity neat: 'Gabrielle de Bergerac' (1869); 2. Secularizing Catholicity: 'The Altar of the Dead' (1895); 3. Protestantizing Catholicity: 'The Great Good Place' (1900); 4. Satirizing secularity: 'The Birthplace (1903); Part V. The Catholic Ménage as Literary Space: 1. 'De Grey: A Romance' (1868); 2. Guy Domville (1893, 1895); 3. The Golden Bowl (1904): the crown of his career; Part VI. 'Prove that I'm Not!' - Toward the Impossibility of Interpretation; Notes; Index.