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Introduction: making a difference: Henry James, literary culture, andracial theater; 1. First impressions: 'Questions of Ethnography' and the artof travel; 2. 'Preparation for culture': Anthony Trollope, the AmericanCentury, and the fiction of freedom; 3. 'Trying to be Natural': authorshipand the power of type in The Princess Casamassima; 4. James, Jack the Ripper,and the cosmopolitan Jew: staging authorship in The Tragic Muse; 5.Documenting the alien: racial theater in The American Scene.