Henry James and modern moral life

Abstract

Acknowledgments 1. Modern morals 2. 'A kind of morbid modernity?' 3. 'Crudities of mutual resistance' 4. Beasts, secrets, and ghosts 5. Isabel Archer's 'beastly pure mind' 6. The 'strange logic' of Lambert Strether's 'Double consciousness' 7. '... without your life, what have you got?' Concluding remarks Texts by James Bibliography.