Death in Henry James

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Andrew Cutting

   Pages 1-18

3. Violence Ashamed: Sacrifice in Roderick Hudson

   • Andrew Cutting

   Pages 19-48

4. Corpses and the Corpus

   • Andrew Cutting

   Pages 49-81

5. The Wings of the Dove and the Morbid

   • Andrew Cutting

   Pages 82-109

6. Afterlives

   • Andrew Cutting

   Pages 110-138

7. Demography in The Portrait of a Lady

   • Andrew Cutting

   Pages 139-168

8. Back Matter

   Pages 169-198

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Moving beyond established ideas of haunted Henry James, this book argues that death is as important a concept for understanding James's fiction as gender, sexuality and modernity, which have come to dominate James studies. Combining formal analysis and close reading with theoretical and historical approaches and focusing on key novels and tales from across James's career, Andrew Cutting explores five instances of Jamesian death: sacrifice, the corpse, morbidity, afterlife and demography. This is the first full-length study of this subject.

• fiction
• Henry James
• novel
• British and Irish Literature

'There are two problems with Cutting's enterprise: life, and death. They are brilliantly brought together in the most innovative section of his work, through the image of a cast of Henry James's face which also provides his wonderfully disturbing dust jacket.' - Times Literary Supplement

ANDREW CUTTING is Senior Lecturer in Humanities Information Technology in the Department of Humanities, Arts and Languages at London Metropolitan University, UK.

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