A selective list of literary criticism for Henry James, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Alvarez Amoros, Jose Antonio. "Relativism and the Expression of Value Judgments in Henry James's 'The Next Time.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1997
Alvarez Amoros, Jose Antonio. "Henry James's 'organic form' and classical rhetoric," Comparative Literature, Winter 1994
Alvarez, Maria Antonia. "The Breach Between Henry James's Novels and Films." Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Alvarez, Maria Antonia. "Henry James’s New Approach to the Autobiographical Genre: The Growing Consciousness of A Small Boy." Alvarez contends that it's essential to read James's Autobiography to fully understand his writing. Journal of American Studies of Turkey 5 (1997)
Banta, Martha. "Alberti’s Geometrics to Piranesi's Choreographics: James's Emotive Structures Of Balance and Abyss," ALA 2003, Henry James Society
Bertonneau, Thomas F. "'The Mysteries of Mimicry': Sublimity and Morality in The Golden Bowl." Anthropoetics IV, no. 2 (Fall 1998/Winter 1999)
Britzolakis, Christina. "Technologies of vision in Henry James's What Maisie Knew." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Summer 2001
Buelens, Gert. "Metaphor, Metonymy, and Ethics in The Portrait of a Lady." Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Cavalier, Philip Acree. "Henry James’s Mathematics." On James’s use of mathematical ideas in two of his early novels, The American and Washington Square, MMLA 2002, Henry James Society
Dapkus, Jeanne R. "Sloughing off the burdens: Ada's and Isabel's parallel/antithetical quests for self-actualization in Jane Campion's film The Piano and Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady." Literature Film Quarterly, 1997
De Biasio, Anna. "The Copies Outstrip the 'Originals': Artistic Representations from The Marble Faun to The Wings of the Dove." Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Eaton, Mark A. "Miramax, Merchant-Ivory, and the New Nobrow Culture: Niche Marketing The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl." Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Erkan, B. Ayça Ulker. "The Art of Fiction in Henry James's Novel The Wings of the Dove." On rhetorical approaches to The Wings of the Dove. Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Flatley, Jonathan. "Reading into Henry James." [On Turn of the Screw] Criticism, Wntr, 2004
Follini, Tamara L. "Henry James and the Spaces of 'Silent-Speaking Words,'" ALA 2003, Henry James Society
Frischkorn, Craig. "Frank Lloyd's Berkeley Square (1933): Re-adapting Henry James's The Sense of the Past." " Director Frank Lloyd's romantic fantasy film Berkeley Square (Fox, 1933) holds a strange but nearly forgotten place in cinema and literary history: It is the first film based on a work by Henry James." Literature Film Quarterly, 2000
Frølund, Gro. "Seven Golden Bowls Full of the Wrath of God." On social and ethical approaches to The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl. Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Gordon, Lyndall. A review of a biography of Henry James, A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art (1999). The first chapter of the book is also available online. NYTimes (free but requires a one-time registration)
Gunter, Susan. "The American and 'Le Roman policier.'" On the genre of The American, and whether it can be considered a detective novel. Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Hadley, Tessa Jane. "French Words in The Ambassadors," Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Hale, Dorothy J. A review of Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory From Henry James to the Present (Stanford Univ. Press, 1998). Reviewed in Comparative Literature, Fall 1999 by Prince, Gerald
Halliwell, Michael. "The Masque of Janus: Douglas Moore's Operatic Version of The Wings of the Dove." On dramatizing Henry James. Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Haralson, Eric. On Henry James and Queer Modernity. (Camb. Univ. Press, 2003). Hemingway Review, Fall 2004, reviewed by Lisa Tyler
Hays, Peter L. "Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and James's The Ambassadors." Hemingway Review, Spring 2001
Jöttkandt, Sigi. "Hysteria, Metaphor and the Ethics of Desire in The Wings of the Dove." On social and ethical approaches to The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl. Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Klein, Marcus. "Convention and Chaos in The Turn of the Screw." Hudson Review, Winter 2007
Litvak, Joseph. Complete book length study: Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. (Univ. of California Press, 1992). Litvak contends that private experience in Henry James "is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities." James is discussed in the chapters "Making a Scene" and "Actress, Monster, Novelist." California Digital Library
Minter, David. A review of A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner. Reviewed by Kreyling, Michael, College Literature, Jun 1996
Mitchell, Lee. "'Begun to Show for Conscious Things': Objects, Setting and the Construction of Character in Henry James." Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Miyabe, Kyoko. "Milly Theale and the Two Paintings in The Wings of the Dove." Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Nelson, Michelle D. "Watch and Ward: James's fantasy of Omnipotence." On Henry James's first novel (1871). Style, Fall, 1995
Newell, Kate. "Washington Square's 'virus of suggestion': Source Texts, Intertexts, and Adaptations." Literature Film Quarterly, 2006
O'Donnell, Heather. "Henry's James." On Henry James's struggle to preserve a secure sense of his private identity and of himself as an American during his 1904 visit to the United States, in the midst of wide-ranging discussion of him in the American press. MLA 2002, Henry James Society
Posnock, Ross. A review of The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity. (Oxford UP, 1991). Reviewed by John Abromeit, online journal
Priest, Ann-Marie. "Risking the Cracks: The Mystic Self in Henry James's The Golden Bowl." Twentieth Century Literature, Jan, 1999
Priest, Ann-Marie. "'In the Mystic Circle': The Space of the Unspeakable in Henry James's The Sacred Fount." Style, Fall, 2000
Raw, Laurence. "Reconstructing Henry James: The Heiress (1949)" [filming Henry James's novels] Literature Film Quarterly, 2002
Rosenberg, Victoria Hammerling. "The Sheltering Wings of the Narrative in The Wings of the Dove." On rhetorical approaches to The Wings of the Dove. Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Rowe, John Carlos. A review of The Other Henry James (Duke Univ. Press, 1998) . Reviewed in College Literature, Fall 2000, by Person, Leland S
Salmon, Richard. Publisher's blurb for Henry James and the Culture of Publicity (Camb. Univ. Press, 1997). On the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture through publicity
Simon, Linda. "The Empowered Physician: William Wilberforce Baldwin and 19th Century Medical Therapeutics." On Sir Luke, the physician in The Wings of the Dove, and his real life model. Henry James Today, Paris 2002, Henry James Society
Smith, George. "Postmodern James."Novel: A Forum on Fiction , Spring 1997
Sorensen, Sue. "'Damnable feminization'?: The Merchant Ivory film adaptation of Henry James's The Bostonians." Literature Film Quarterly, 1997
Thomas, Brook. Complete book length study: American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract (Univ. of California Press, 1997). "Thomas investigates a host of issues at the forefront of public debate in the nineteenth century: race and the meaning of equality, miscegenation, marriage, labor unrest, economic transformation, and changes in notions of human agency and subjectivity." Includes a chapter on James, "Henry James and the Construction of Privacy." California Digital Library
Tintner, Adeline, ed. A review of Henry James and the Lust of the Eyes: Thirteen Artists in His Work. Reviewed in Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1994, by James W. Gargano
Vacca, V. John. "The art of memory in James's 'The Tone of Time.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1998
Wesley, Marilyn C. "The remembered future: neuro-cognitive identity in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw." College Literature, 22-MAR-04
Vaux, Molly. "Vindication against Misreading: The Golden Bowl, The American Scene, and the New York Edition," MLA 2002, Henry James Society
Wesley, Marilyn C "Remembered Future: Neuro-Cognitive Identity in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw." College Literature, Spring 2004
Westover, Jeff. "Handing over power in James's What Maisie Knew." Style, Summer, 1994
Zacharias, Greg. Henry James and the Assumption of Family Responsibility," ALA 2003, Henry James Society
Anesko, Michael. "The Bitch of Desolation" (on James's story "The Bench of Desolation"), Henry James Society (removed from http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/Anesko.htm)
Parkinson, Edward J. "The Turn of the Screw: A History of Its Critical Interpretations, 1898 - 1979." Doctoral dissertation, (1991) published online (removed from www.turnofthescrew.com)
Zacharias, Greg. "Hawthorne and Henry James’s (Literary) Reputation." On the public reaction to Henry James's Hawthorne. ALA 2002, Henry James Society (removed from http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/Zacharias.htm)
Beach, Joseph Warren. Older criticism on Henry James, includes the following sections: The Question of James’s Americanism; His Passion for "Europe"; Americans in His Stories; Transcendentalism; Parentage and Education; Newport, Boston, Cambridge; Residence Abroad; Miscellaneous Writings; Collected Stories; Earlier Novels; Short Stories; Later Novels; Peculiarity of the James Method; James and [Walter] Pater; American Faith and European Culture. The Cambridge History of Literature (1907-21)
Campbell, Kate. A substantial introduction to Henry James from the Literary Encyclopedia, 25 June, 2002
Alleva, Richard. "Henry James made carnal: Wings of the Dove." [film review] Commonweal, Dec 19, 1997
Van Doren, Carl. Older criticism on Henry James from The American Novel (Macmillan, 1921)
An 1887 review of Henry James, from The (UK) Guardian, brief and snippy: "Unfortunately for Mr James, his great predecessors confined themselves almost entirely to their own people, whom they understood, and Mr James has tried English people, whom he does not understand."
The Henry James Society and paper authors generously provide full text of selected scholarly papers from American Literature Association and Modern Language Association conferences. (Indexed at literaryhistory.com)
Web site of the Henry James Review, a peer-reviewed and password controlled journal. A sample issue is available to read online
A scholar's reference web site on Henry James, catalogues internet sources of information for the student of James. Created by Richard D. Hathaway, Professor Emeritus of English, SUNY New Paltz
The Atlantic Monthly from 1857 to 1901 can be searched at this site provided by Cornell Univ. A patient researcher will find contemporary articles by and about Henry James, George Eliot, and others
The Henry James Calendar/Register from the University of Nebraska Press provides access to a database of all known letters written by Henry James and brief biographical information on the recipients
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