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Sources and Acknowledgements; Editor's introduction; 1. The AmericanNovel; 2. Hawthorne as poet; 3. Melville: the 1853-6 phase; 4. Henry Jamesand the disabilities of the American novelist in the nineteenth century; 5.James, Trollope and the American-English confrontation theme; 6. A note onliterary indebtedness: Dickens, George, Eliot, Henry James; 7. The fox is thenovelist's idea: Henry James and the house beautiful; 8. Henry James: thestories; 9. The institution of Henry James; 10. Henry James's heiress: theimportance of Edith Wharton; 11. Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth; 12. TheFrench novel; 13. The Russian novel; 14. The Italian novel; Notes.