Introduction: at home: the reception of Henry James; Part I. Henry James's
Last Romance: The Sense of the Past: 1. The sense of the present; 2. The
sense of a happy ending; Part II. Civilization and its Contents: The
American Scene: 3. Making signs of the past: interpretation and C. S.
Peirce; 4. Waste makes taste: Classicism, conspicuous consumption, and
Thorstein Veblen; 5. 'Psychic Mulattos': the ambiguity of race and W. E. B.
Du Bois; 6. The return of the alien: Ethnic identity and Jakob A. Riis;
Part III. Patrimony and Matrimony: The Ivory Tower: 7. Heterosocial acts:
the ambiguity of gender in the New World; 8. Odd couples: Henry James
Senior and Jacques Lacan; 9. Irony makes love: Mrs Henry James and
Washington, AC/DC.
