Teaching the Short Fiction of Henry James

Kathleen McDonald is a professor of English at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, the university assessment coordinator at Norwich University and regularly participates in regional accreditations, and presents at conferences. Anne S. Jung is vice president of academic affairs, dean of the college, and associate professor of English at Maria College in Albany, New York. Her current research interests include 19th century American Romance, art and gender in the literature of Henry James, as well as the pedagogy of teaching Cultural Studies.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Setting the Scene

Kathleen McDonald

“[She] is not, after all, a Comanche savage”: Reading Daisy Miller and Teaching Inclusive Excellence

Jayson Baker

­Gold-Digger with a Purpose: Class Delusions and Disparities in “A ­Landscape-painter”

Katherine Shloznikova

Painting “a picture out of her setting”: The Jamesian Picturesque, the Claude Mirror Effect, and the Racial and National Dynamic in The Europeans

Nevena Stojanovic

Providing Contexts and Contextualization: Prosper Mérimée’s “La Vénus d’Ille,” James’ “The Last of the Valerii,” and The Portrait of a Lady

Anne S. Jung

“Bedizened in this unnatural garb”: Fashion, Rivalry, and the Supernatural in Teaching “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes”

Alissa Burger

Beneath an Italian Sky: Europe and Artistic Education in “Travelling Companions” and “The Madonna of the Future”

Bruno Penteado

Memory, Imagination, and the Recovery of the Past in the Present: The American Scene and “The Jolly Corner”

Ronald A. Bosco

The Specter of Tradition and Liberal Agency in “Owen Wingrave”

Mercedes García Palma

What to Do with a Dead Author: A Study of Influence Between Henry James’ “The Figure in the Carpet” and Roland Barthes’ “The Death of the Author”

Jamie Bowman

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