Contents

• A horror of dogma : James, Howells, and the roots of American realism
• Young Americans : criticism and correspondence I
• James’s "The art of fiction" in critical context
• Defining the critic in the "Editor’s study" and "The science of criticism"
• "The honest daylight about us" : social, ethical, and moral concerns in the criticism of Howells and James, 1886-1895
• "American chances and opportunities" : criticism and correspondence II
• The man of letters as a man of business : defining the writer, the novel, and the critic in the twentieth century
• James’s prefaces to the New York edition
• Howells’s literary criticism in the "Editor’s easy chair" and Heroines of fiction
• On native grounds : criticism and correspondence III