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Acknowledgements.- A Note on Editions and Abbreviations.- Introduction: Reading The American Scene.- Two Texts: 'The Interest Behind the Interest': The Last of the Valerii and The Ambassadors.- Histories of Sexuality in The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians.- Monomania and the American Past: The Aspern Papers.- Allegorical Autobiography and The Turn of the Screw.- 'Within a Modern Shade': Race, Sex and Class in The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew and The Awkward Age.- Henry James's 'American Girl': The Wings of the Dove.- 'The Haunted Man': The Beast in the Jungle.- What does the American Want?:  The Golden Bowl.- The Jolly Corner: A Tale of New York.- Index.