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Table of contents for Henry James and the "woman business" / Alfred Habegger.

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The lessons of the father: Henry James, Sr., on sexual difference
3. Precocious incest: first novels by Louisa May Alcott and Henry James
4. The chains of literature: Elizabeth Stoddard and Henry James
5. Anne Moncure Crane Seemuller: Henry James's Jocasta
6. Minnie Temple's death and the birth of Henry James's imagination
7. The fatherless heroine and the filial son: deep background for The Portrait of a Lady
8. The return of the father in The Bostonians
9. Conclusion
Notes
Index.

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: James, Henry, 1843-1916 Views on sex role, Feminism and literature United States History 19th century, James, Henry, 1843-1916 Characters Women, Sex role in literature, Women in literature