The jolly corner and other tales / by James, Henry, 1843-1916

Table of Contents: “…General chronology of James's life and writings -- Introduction -- Textual introduction -- Chronology of composition and production -- Bibliography -- The jolly corner and other tales -- The birthplace -- The papers -- Fordham Castle -- Julia Bride -- The jolly corner -- The velvet glove -- Mora montravers -- Crapy Cornelia -- The bench of desolation -- A round of visits -- Glossary of foreign words and phrases -- Notes -- Textual variants -- Emendations -- Appendix -- A: entries in James's notebooks -- B: extracts from prefaces to the New York edition.…”
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in black and white / by Park, Josephine Nock-Hee, 1971-

Subjects: “…James, Henry, 1843-1916. Jolly corner.…”
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Willa Cather and aestheticism : from Romanticism to Modernism /

Table of Contents: “…Innocence and experience, good and evil, and doppelgangers : decadent aesthetics in Cather's "Consequences," James's "The jolly corner," and Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray /…”
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Ordinary choices : individuals, incommensurability, and democracy / by Urquhart, Robert, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Gods and mortals -- A human order -- A tragic order -- Taking things seriously -- Shapes and scales of choice -- The jolly corner -- Necessity and difficulty of life choice -- The time of crossword puzzles -- For small values -- The occurrence of individuality -- Individuals, materialism, and democracy.…”
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Telling in Henry James : the web of experience and the forms of reality / by Zwinger, Lynda Marie

Table of Contents: “…In the Vestibule of "The Jolly Corner" -- 6. Telling On Henry James -- Works Cited -- Index.…”
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Houses, secrets, and the closet : locating masculinities from the Gothic novel to Henry James / by Bauer, Gero

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Prelude: Bluebeard; Context: History, Houses, and Masculinities; Methods: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Liminal Spaces; Bluebeard's 'Closet:' Gothic Novels; Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho; William Godwin's Caleb Williams; The Contested Secret Room: Sensation Novels; Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White; Wilkie Collins' No Name; Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret; Globalising the 'Closet:' Henry James; Henry James' "The Aspern Papers"; Henry James' "In the Cage"; Henry James' "The Jolly Corner"; Coda.…”
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Writing the self : Henry James and America / by Collister, Peter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Letting yourself go: James arrives in twentieth-century America -- Surrendering to the messages of New York -- Boston and Cambridge: initiations from the past -- Asking 'as few questions as possible' in Arcadian New England -- Hearing the voices of the South -- 'Unwritten history': the romance of James's Civil War stories -- 'Doing something' for the soldiers of the Civil War -- Life-writing for the man of letters -- 'An influence beyond my notation': the self-reflexive figures of 'The jolly corner' -- Opening doors into The sense of the past -- 'A round of visits': effects achieved 'without the aid of the ladies' -- Waking up to 'some pretty big things' in The Ivory tower.…”
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Family secrets and the psychoanalysis of narrative / by Rashkin, Esther, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Acknowledgments Note on Documentation Introduction: Character Analysis, Unspeakable Secrets, and the Formation of Narrative 3 Ch. 1 For a New Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: The Works of Abraham and Torok 13 Ch. 2 The Ghost of a Secret: Psychoanalytic Allegory in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer 49 Ch. 3 The Interred Sign: L'intersigne by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam 64 Ch. 4 Legacies of Gold: Honore de Balzac's Facino Cane 81 Ch. 5 In the Mind's I: The Jolly Corner of Henry James 93 Ch. 6 A Meeting of the Minds: Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher 123 Conclusion 156 Notes 167 Index 201.…”
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Before Einstein : the Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture. by Throesch, Elizabeth L.

Table of Contents: “…Wells's Splintering Frame Technique and 'Cubist Visual Culture'Disruption and Disunity in The Invisible Man; The Spoils of Boon; Chapter Six Exceeding 'The Trap of the Reflexive': Henry James's Dimensions of Consciousness; The Spiralling Consciousness in Henry James; The Spoils of Poynton (1896-1897); 'The Great Good Place' (1900); Henry James and 'Aesthetic Time'; 'The Jolly Corner' (1908); 'A Kind of Fourth Dimension' in Henry James; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Reimagining realism : a new anthology of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American short fiction /

Table of Contents: “…(William Sydney Porter) "A municipal report" (1910) -- Howells, William Dean "A romance of real life" (1870) -- James, Henry "The jolly corner" (1908) -- Jewett, Sarah Orne "Tom's husband" (1882), "Stolen pleasures" (1885) -- King, Grace "Making progress" (1901) -- London, Jack "The league of the old men" (1902), "The apostate: a child labor parable" (1906) -- Macomber, Lucy Bates "The gossip of Gold Hill" (1873) -- Mena, María Cristina "The education of Popo" (1914) -- Neall, Hannah Lloyd "Placer" (1871) -- Norris, Frank "The house with the blinds" (1897) -- Oskison, John "The problem of old Harjo" (1907) -- Peattie, Elia Wilkinson "After the storm: a story of the prairie" (1897) -- Spofford, Harriet Prescott "Her story" (1872) -- Stuart, Ruth McEnery "The unlived life of little Mary Ellen" (1896) -- Thanet, Octave (Alice French) "The face of failure" (1892) -- Twain, Mark (Sameul Langhorne Clemens) "The fact concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut" (1876), "The second advent" (written in 1881; first published 1972) -- Wharton, Edith "Xingu" (1911) -- Wister, Owen "Hank's woman" (1892) -- Woolson, Constance Fenimore "Miss Grief" (1880) -- Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) "The soft-hearted Sioux" (1901).…”
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Unlived Lives in English Literature : a Typological Study. by Linne, Lena

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