Death in Henry James

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

• 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

'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