Death in Henry James

Acknowledgements Note on the Texts Introduction PART 1: VIOLENCE ASHAMED: SACRIFICE IN RODERICK HUDSON Fait Accompli Accident, Suicide and Murder Scapegoat The Princess Casamassima War Artist PART 2: CORPSES AND THE CORPUS Deathbed Necrophilia Abjection Vanishing James's Life/Death Mask PART 3: THE WINGS OF THE DOVE AND THE MORBID Degeneration Seeing Death Rooms and Tombs Style, the Cult of the Dead and Mourning PART 4: AFTERLIVES Communicating with the Future Out-Thinking Death: 'Is there a Life after Death?' Biographobia and the Reader as Legatee Ex-novelist PART 5: DEMOGRAPHY IN THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY Calculation, the Crowd, and the Sublime Framing Life Mortality in James's Population Notes Bibliography Index