1st Edition
Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity Commercial Cosmopolitanism
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Henry James, Commercial Cosmopolitanism, and the Historical Formation of Mass Culture
Chapter 1 Traditional Cosmopolitanism and Mass Culture in James’s Early Fiction
Chapter 2 The Anglo-American Newspaper Industry, Commercialized Celebrity, and the New Journalistic Style
Chapter 3 Writing Machines: The Question of Cosmopolitan Opportunities for
Mass-Produced Short Fiction
Chapter 4 Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a
Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors
Chapter 5 The Sacred in the Profane: "The Old Things" and Spiritual Realism in
Summersoft and The Wings of the Dove
Chapter 6 That "Rare Power of Purchase:" The Material Advantage of Acquiring
Cosmopolitan Skills in The Golden Bowl
Epilogue Art Consumption in James’s Last Writings
Index
Biography
June Hee Chung is Associate Professor of late-19th and early-20th Century American literature at DePaul University in Chicago. Her work centers on the intersections of commercial practices and cosmopolitanism in the arts. She has published essays on Henry James and economic history for American Literature, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge Press, and she is completing a book on American Orientalism and decorative material culture in early-20th century women’s fiction.
