. . . . . . . . the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites
This site was selected by The New York Times "Browser" column as one of five recommended Web sites for the week of January 27, 2000.
TABLE OF CONTENTS of "the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites":
- NEW:The Henry James E-Journal, Number 8: "Henry James and a 'Sense' of Place: The Modalities of Perception" - by John D. Ballam - What Maisie Knew, English Hours, modal verbs, and "the multifarious dimensions of reality"
- Number 7: James Cellan Jones's View of Female Potential in The Portrait of a Lady (1968) and The Golden Bowl (1972) by Laurence Raw - films, fiction, and feminism
- Number 6: A Virtual Henry James - by Andrew Cutting - Henry James in a digital world. In hypertext format, this article was especially designed to appear in The Henry James E-Journal, as the medium is part of the message.
- Number 5: The Portrait without a Subject: German Re-visioning, the Self, Nature, and the Jamesian Novel - by Michael S. Martin - Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment in relation to Henry James's The Art of Fiction and The Portrait of a Lady
- Number 4: Observing Femininity: Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller (1974) - by Laurence Raw
- Number 3: Ghosts at the Windows: Shadow and Corona in The Ambassadors - by Richard Hathaway - (reproduced by permission of The Henry James Review.)
- Number 2: Pushkin in The Aspern Papers - by Joseph S. O'Leary
- Number 1: Still Seduced by the Exquisitely Ambiguous? Of Contestation, Polarization, and _The American Scene_ - by Gert Buelens
- Browse Cornell's Making of America image library - Thousands of books and 19th-century periodicals are reproduced in their entirety as page-by-page images--for example The Atlantic Monthly, The Galaxy, and other periodicals in which James's stories and novels first appeared. Clicking on "J" at the bottom of the page allows you to browse in "J" authors and book titles, including Henry James. Each page image reproduces the original source exactly. Images are loaded one page at a time, can be zoomed, and are downloadable, one page at a time, in various formats, including pdf (Adobe Acrobat). For those wishing to do Optical Character Recognition or printing of images, the pdf format works especially well.
ABOUT HENRY JAMES:
- Henry James & Family: Eleven Unpublished Letters - the James-family letters at the Berenson Archive, Fiesole, Italy. A 108-page monograph in pdf format containing, in addition to critical texts of the letters, substantial considerations of such topics as letter-editing within the James family, James's "The Outcry," and James's attitudes towards art critics and Jews.
- 1887 review of The Princess Casamassima - from the Guardian
- The Subtext of Violence in Henry James' The Wings of the Dove: The Sacrificial Crisis - by Kathryn Zervos
- Cult of the Master - by James Wood. Concerning The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, and The Awkward Age - from The Atlantic, April 2003
- The Turn of the Screw: A History of Its Critical Interpretations 1898-1979 - a 1991 Ph.D. dissertation, in its entirety, by Edward J. Parkinson
- "'The Mysteries of Mimicry': Sublimity and Morality in The Golden Bowl" - a substantial article by Thomas F. Bertonneau - from Anthropoetics
- Three sets of miscellaneous articles about Henry James
- Set 1: Henry James galore! - Added to this set: 13 articles posted May 4, 2001.
- Set 2: Henry James Critlinks
- Set 3: Henry James Miscellany
- The biographers discuss James's sexual orientation. (Note: Some of the items in this exchange are no longer available on-line.)
- Leon Edel criticizes Sheldon Novick's biography (12-19-96)
- Sheldon Novick replies (12-31-96)
- Sheldon Novick continues the discussion - addressing James biographer Fred Kaplan (1-24-97)
- Fred Kaplan replies to Sheldon Novick (1-30-97)
- Study guides for students:
- Sparknotes on Daisy Miller - OR Sparknotes on The Turn of the Screw - OR Sparknotes on other authors - OR Sparknotes on other subjects and on SAT (and other) test preparation - plot summaries, commentaries, study aids. Covers many college subjects: literature, computer science, history, philosophy, astronomy, etc.
- about Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw - "Classic Notes," written by Harvard students. Detailed summaries and analyses of scores of classic texts, from Aeschylus to James to Richard Wright. Links to resources for writing and editing essays and theses.
- Another summary and analysis of Daisy Miller - also by Harvard students
- About James: criticism and biography - links provided by the Internet Public Library (See the "Libraries" section, below, for the IPL's links to criticism about other authors of all nationalities and periods.)
- Carl Van Doren on Henry James - from The American Novel (1921)
- Lyndall Gordon on Henry James, Minny Temple, and Constance Fenimore Woolson
- Joseph Conrad on Henry James
- William Dean Howells on Henry James
- Excerpt from Sheldon Novick's biography of Henry James - concerning his dictation to his stenographers
- The Deathbed Notes of Henry James by Leon Edel (Atlantic Monthly, 1968) - The viewer must search for the title Deathbed Notes.
- The Bostonians, an 1886 review by H. E. Scudder from The Atlantic Monthly - The viewer must search for the title The Bostonians.
- NOTE: The following items by Jane Bernardete and R.W.B. Lewis are temporarily unavailable because their owner, The Mercantile Library, has shut down its Web page. If The Mercantile Library recreates its Web page, the link will become usable. Henry James and the Feminine - two "Henry James Sesquicentennial" lectures (1993) by R.W.B. Lewis, and Jane Bernardete -
- Determining One's Fate: Henry James's Autobiography by Victoria N. Alexander
- Spirit and Material Possession in the Supernatural Fiction of Henry James by Robert Michalski
- Paul Reuben's selective bibliography of Henry James criticism
- A selective bibliography for The Portrait of a Lady - Donna Campbell, Gonzaga University
BY HENRY JAMES:
- A Henry James essay on Turgenev
- Another Henry James essay on Turgenev
- Books by Henry James, listed chronologically
- Henry James Tales in Collections Index - republications of James's tales: a comprehensive index by Adrian Dover
- Henry James and The Atlantic Monthly - works by and about Henry James that have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly: "The Story of a Year" (1865), an installment of Portrait of a Lady, an 1882 review of Portrait of a Lady, Henry James as Landlord, etc.
- Henry James's 1872 review of Hawthorne's notebooks - (html, Eric Eldred - with links to his Hawthorne home page)
- Henry James's 1865 review of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
FILMS AND HENRY JAMES:
- The Portrait of a Lady - a review by Roger Ebert of the Jane Campion film
- The Internet Movie Database - filmography for Henry James, including reviews of films - The Internet Movie Database is a comprehensive guide to films, though a number of Henry James films, especially television films, are omitted. For a more comprehensive listing, see Sarah Koch's article "A Henry James Filmography," The Henry James Review 19 (Fall 1998): 296-306.
- Reviews of the Merchant-Ivory film version of The Golden Bowl - (Also includes a few reviews of other recent Henry James films.)
- News about the Merchant-Ivory film version of The Golden Bowl.
- Information about upcoming movies
- Reviews of the 1997 film of The Wings of the Dove - several dozen reviews, provided by The Internet Movie Database
- Reviews of the 1997 film of Washington Square - several dozen reviews, provided by The Internet Movie Database
- Reviews of the 1996 film The Portrait of a Lady - several dozen reviews, provided by The Internet Movie Database
- Henry James etexts at Adrian Dover's Web site - Annotations of the works add to the interest of this excellent site. The following list is probably incomplete, as Adrian Dover frequently adds new etexts of James's short stories to his site.
Novels (with individual links):
The Princess Casamassima; The Tragic Muse; The Spoils of Poynton; The Awkward Age; The Ivory Tower (with the long working note and extracts from the notebook entries);
Tales (use menu):
The Abasement of the Northmores; The Beast in the Jungle; The Beldonald Holbein; The Bench of Desolation; The Birthplace; Broken Wings; Brooksmith; Collaboration; Covering End; Crapy Cornelia; Flickerbridge; Fordham Castle; The Given Case; The Great Condition; John Delavoy; The Liar; A London Life; Lord Beaupr'e; Louisa Pallant; Maud-Evelyn; Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie; The Modern Warning; Mora Montravers; Mrs. Medwin; Mrs. Temperly; Owen Wingrave; The Papers; The Private Life; The Real Right Thing; A Round of Visits; Sir Edmund Orme; The Solution; The Special Type; The Story in It; The Tone of Time; The Tree of Knowledge; The Two Faces; The Velvet Glove; The Visits; The Wheel of Time;
Plays:(use menu):
Summersoft and The High Bid (in both independent and parallel-text versions).
- A concordance to Henry James etexts at Adrian Dover's Web site
- James's Preface to The American - with notes on The American (at Susan Griffin's Web site)
- The American (text, the English Server)
- Henry James etexts at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia - (html, by chapters) The Altar of the Dead, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, Confidence, The Turn of the Screw - Page down to the Henry James section. A large collection of other etexts can also be accessed at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html.
- The Art of Fiction - (html, Universita degli Studi di Bergamo)
- "The Friends of the Friends" and "A Landscape Painter" (html, with commentary) These two stories are located on Casey Abell's Web site. Go to the end of his home page to reach the links.
- The Jolly Corner (html, Gaslight, Mt. Royal College)
- The Beast in the Jungle (html, by chapters, University of Colorado)
- The Real Thing (html, by chapters, University of Colorado)
- Project Gutenberg etexts of Henry James (text and zip formats, primarily) - Page down until you reach the Henry James section.
Another way to access Project Gutenberg etexts is "http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi" but you may find the "Online Books" gateway to Project Gutenberg and other James sites more convenient to use. The following list is probably incomplete, as Project Gutenberg frequently adds new James etexts.
The Ambassadors [originally prepared by Richard Hathaway, but unlike the text at New Paltz emended without notice and lacking his proofreading corrections of February 29, 2000], The Altar of the Dead, The American, The Aspern Papers, The Beast in the Jungle, The Beldonald Holbein, Brooksmith, The Chaperon, Confidence, The Coxon Fund, Daisy Miller (1879 text), The Death of the Lion, The Diary of a Man of Fifty, The Europeans, The Figure in the Carpet, Flickerbridge, Glasses, The Golden Bowl (1904 text), In the Cage, An International Episode, The Jolly Corner, The Lesson of the Master, A Little Tour in France, The Madonna of the Future, The Marriages, Mrs. Medwin, Nona Vincent, Pandora, The Patagonia, The Portrait of a Lady, The Pupil, The Real Thing, Roderick Hudson, The Story of [in] It, The Turn of the Screw)
Some Project Gutenberg etexts not yet "officially released" are available indirectly via other sources. Suggestion: Keep trying the alternate sites until you find one that works for you.
* The Pension Beaurepas (text)
* A Bundle of Letters (text)
* The Point of View (text)
* Washington Square (text) - 1921 Macmillan edition
* Sir Dominick Ferrand, Nona Vincent, The Chaperon, Greville Fane (text)
* Eugene Pickering (text)
Many of these titles are also available, with the added feature of being by chapters, from Great Literature Online (html). But note that the etext of The Ambassadors is the same Gutenberg etext that lacks the proofreading corrections of February 29, 2000. Also note that this site is full of pop-up advertising.
- The Ambassadors (html, byGosh.com) - copied from the New Paltz etext and divided into chapters, but prior to its proofreading corrections of February 29, 2000
- Yahoo links to various items on "The Ambassadors"
- Yahoo links to various items on "Daisy Miller" -
- The Golden Bowl (html, byGosh.com) - copied from the New Paltz etext and divided into chapters, but prior to its proofreading corrections of June 11, 2000
- The Portrait of a Lady - (html, by chapters, Bartleby.com) - not the New York Edition
- The Turn of the Screw (The americanliterature.com library, William Reese Company) - (html, by chapters) - has email chat room about the story. But this site is full of pop-up advertising.
- The On-Line Books Page - a good place to begin a search for etexts. It is also an easy way to access etexts of James's works and may sometimes have a more up-to-date list of them than the list on this page, above.
- Athena - Pierre Perroud's site in Geneva, linking to thousands of etexts and to etext sites all over the world
- Project Gutenberg - a primary provider of etexts
- University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center - Many of the etexts have restricted access.
- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database - links to novels, poems, stories with commentary; links to paintings and audio recordings
- Browse Sally Anne (20th Century American Literature)
- Browse Mimi(18th-19th Century American Literature)
- A Virtual Library of Virtual Libraries - a "bibliography of bibliographies" guide to etexts on the Web. Useful but by no means complete
- WebMuseum, Paris - Nicolas Pioch's must-see site. A huge collection of great paintings, full-screen, full-color. Cap off the experience with a guided tour of Paris. Then come back here to see some paintings by Brian James, the great-great grandson of William James.
Postings devoted to Henry James
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- Announcements of conferences, Calls for papers, relating to Henry James - supplied by The Henry James Review
- The Henry James Review
- The Henry James Society - Founded in 1979, the Henry James Society devotes itself to encouraging scholarly, as well as public, interest in Henry James and the James family. The Society publishes _The Henry James Review_, edited by Susan M. Griffin at the University of Louisville and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The annual subscription rate of $31 includes membership in the James Society. The Executive Director is Greg W. Zacharias, Creighton University, (gwzach@creighton.edu). The current President is Wendy Graham, Vassar College, (wegraham@vassar.edu).
- Letters to Henry James from Robert Louis Stevenson - complete texts of the letters
- Henry James complete-letters project - a project at Creighton University, Nebraska, to collect and publish copies of all of Henry James's letters.
- James Family Papers inventory - The papers are on loan from Ms. Bay James to Creighton University. The inventory describes each item fully, with brief quotations. Permission to copy the inventory is not required.
- An on-line calendar of Henry James's letters - a calendar of almost 10,500 letters and a register of more than 1,000 correspondents; compiled by Susan Gunter and Steven H. Jobe
- NEW: Henry James correspondence and journals at the Houghton Library - a listing by date and correspondent of 2221 letters at Harvard's Houghton Library, plus 16 volumes of diaries and appointment books.
- Emily Dickinson International Society page - There are many Emily Dickinson pages. Yahoo (see below) will find them quickly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson home page - by Jone Johnson. Links to other Unitarians and Universalists
- Nathaniel Hawthorne home page
- William Dean Howells Society home page
- Herman Melville home page - many links to other home pages and Web sites
- Moby-Dick - a complete text, searchable on-line. Searched-for words need not be adjacent.
- "The House of Usher," an Edgar Allan Poe home page - We assume no responsibility for what may happen to you in "The House of Usher."
- Mark Twain home page
- Edith Wharton Society home page
- a Walt Whitman page - includes facsimiles of the four lost Whitman notebooks, found in 1995
- Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900) - not the Deathbed Edition. Readers will notice many lines that are different from the ones usually printed today. "Song of Myself" is titled "Walt Whitman." Many variant readings are noted (in hypertext).
- Reading Group Guides.com - Discussion questions for book groups. Brief descriptions of books and quotations from reviews. Hundreds of book titles, particularly of contemporary novels. A few 19th-century books. Several William Faulkner titles, but no Henry James.
- Something from Japan: Mitsuharu Matsuoka's home page - 19th-century English literature (especially Gaskell, Gissing, and Dickens); American literature. See the Index for a remarkably varied list of topics. Links to museums, publishers, newspapers all over the world.
- Literary Resources on the Net - Jack Lynch's links to everything from Cicero to semiotics. Home pages, calls for papers, mailing lists, etc.
- Voice of the Shuttle home page - Alan Liu's unusually comprehensive guide to Web sites. Of particular interest to scholars in the humanities. Note that "Literature (English)" on the menu includes American literature.
- 19th Century American Writers - links to home pages of Dickinson, Emerson, Poe, Thoreau, and others
- Eldritch Press page - links to many items of interest, including the campaign against the new copyright law that restricts creation of etexts
- Bedford/St. Martin's links to Web sites - Unlike most sites, this one discriminatingly selects, evaluates, and describes the leading Web sites for critical theorists, novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, and literary periods. Links to primary texts and critical articles. Study questions on each genre. Interactive tutorials on research techniques, Web searches, and using library catalogues on the Web. For composition, history, political science, etc., try http://www.bedfordstmartins. We list this site under three categories so that you won't miss it.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet - a comprehensive index to just about any subject
- Samizdat (Richard Seltzer) - This interesting miscellany includes some authors' home pages. Search for "Richard Seltzer's List of URLs" near the end of the home page: links to hundreds of Web sites, classified.
- John Hewitt's Writer's Resource Center - suggestions and resources concerning writing and publishing everything from poetry to technical writing
- Malaspina Great Books home page - art, music, teaching materials, on-line courses, bibliographies, and books for sale on scholarly subjects
- Godey's Lady's Book home page
- The Nest at Home - from Godey's Lady's Book
- ZD Net - reviews of computer hardware and software, with price comparisons for different retail sources
- The New York Times
- Babel Fish language translator - Need help translating Henry James's French? Babel Fish "translates" several languages, with results that will often make you smile. (Use the "World Keyboard" option if you need to enter accented characters.)
- MLA On-line Bibliography via FirstSearch - This link is for the convenience of those who are connected to the Internet via a college that has a FirstSearch account.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet - a comprehensive index to just about any subject
- Internet Public Library - many reference resources. Links to libraries, etexts, newspapers and serials. Literary criticism a specialty: "1566 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period." Or click on "Exhibits" for everything from jazz and dinosaurs to a history of classical music, with many color illustrations and music clips.
- Literary criticism at the Internet Public Library - links to on-line literary criticism concerning authors of all periods and nationalities.
- LibDex - provides access to library home pages and catalogs, worldwide. For a directory of libraries, worldwide, giving addresses for Telnet access, click here on Hytelnet.
- Library of Congress
- Harvard University Library
- New York Public Library
- Books by and about Henry James currently for sale - links to Amazon and a few other Web-based new-book dealers
- The Library of America's collection of works by Henry James - This page has notes on, among other things, publication dates and places, James's proofreading practices, and the kinds of textual revisions James made. (Click on "note on the texts" at the top of the page for each volume.)
- Bibliofind - for buying and selling used books on the Web - links to thousands of book dealers, including rare book dealers
- Abebooks - another link for buying and selling used books on the Web - links to thousands of book dealers, including rare book dealers
- Bedford/St. Martin's links to Web sites - Unlike most sites, this one discriminatingly selects, evaluates, and describes the leading Web sites for critical theorists, novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, and literary periods. Links to primary texts and critical articles. Study questions on each genre. Interactive tutorials on research techniques, Web searches, and using library catalogues on the Web. For composition, history, political science, etc., try http://www.bedfordstmartins. We list this site under three categories so that you won't miss it.
- The Heath Anthology of American Literature Page - ideas for teaching with the World Wide Web - Also has many many links to Web sites for American authors, organized by this anthology's table of contents.
- 20th Century American Poetry - an Alan Filreis course at the University of Pennsylvania, with links to etexts of poems and information about them
- The Literature and Culture of the American 1950's - another Alan Filreis course
- A Princeton course in the American Renaissance
- Undergraduate Writing Center at University of Texas - links to other university writing centers
- University of Southern Colorado resources for writers - links to on-line reference resources: dictionary, familiar quotations, writing handbooks, MLA style sheet, etc.
- Google - The premier search engine. Try the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which takes you straight to a leading home page for any author or topic specified. Or do a standard search.
- Open Directory Project - a comprehensive directory of the Web, maintained by humans, not machines. The editors are volunteers who have come forward, each to edit a category. A category can be as small as single author. As of 7/18/01 the Henry James category, having no editor, was in some disarray.
- Bedford/St. Martin's links to Web sites - Unlike most sites, this one discriminatingly selects, evaluates, and describes the leading Web sites for critical theorists, novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, and literary periods. Links to primary texts and critical articles. Study questions on each genre. Interactive tutorials on research techniques, Web searches, and using library catalogues on the Web. For composition, history, political science, etc., try http://www.bedfordstmartins. We list this site under three categories so that you won't miss it.
- Yahoo - turns up fewer irrelevancies than AltaVista, WebCrawler, Excite, Lycos, and HotBot
- InfoSeek
- WebCrawler
- AltaVista - unabridged: can deliver millions of items per search, even answers to such natural-language queries as "Why is the ocean salty?" (News Note, 3/1/99: The AltaVista search engine is now much improved and worth the scholar's serious attention. Henry James (1843-1916) has moved to the top of AltaVista's list of 16,586 "hits" for the query "Henry James." This puts him, at last, in a position ahead of Henry James Grinder, now relegated to 49 "hits," beginning at number 25. Henry James Grinder is a much-photographed dog.) (News update, 4/26/03: AltaVista continues to improve. The searcher who wants everything and who is willing to dig through the chaff will be rewarded. Hits for Henry James the novelist at last predominate; and Henry James Grinder, perhaps embarrassed, has retreated out of sight.)
- Lycos, HotBot
- Excite
- About.com
Uses humans, not automated Web crawlers, to find new Web sites, says The New York Times. To save time with About.com, instead of entering your query in the "search box," experiment with clicking on topics to narrow down your search. For example, Arts/Humanities>Literature Classic>American Authors>Henry James- Slider
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML
- HTML Quick Reference
- Style Guide for Online Hypertext
- TUCOWS: The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software - evaluations of HTML and utility software. How to download it.
- Guide to Publishing on the Web
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Richard D. Hathaway, Professor Emeritus of English
SUNY New Paltz
New Paltz, NY 12561, USAI am not aware of Henry James materials on the Web that are not referred to above.
Page last updated February 1, 2004