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Introduction: at home: the reception of Henry James; Part I. HenryJames'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: TheAmerican Scene: 3. Making signs of the past: interpretation and C. S. Peirce;4. Waste makes taste: Classicism, conspicuous consumption, and ThorsteinVeblen; 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 ambiguityof gender in the New World; 8. Odd couples: Henry James Senior and JacquesLacan; 9. Irony makes love: Mrs Henry James and Washington, AC/DC.