Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Author's note
  • Acknowledgements, in Memoriam, by Rosemary Righter
  • Part One: America Deconstructed
  • 1 The Jamesian Perspective
  • 2 The Composite Light
  • 3 America and the Pathos of Desire
  • Notes to Part One
  • Part Two: The Note of Europe
  • 4 An Encounter in Nôtre Dame
  • 5 T̀here to Reconstruct'
  • 6 The Comedy of Moral Terms
  • 7 Strether's Reasons
  • 8 Values in Collision
  • 9 Nihilism and Decorum
  • Notes to Part Two
  • Part Three: Amerigo in an American Nowhere
  • 10 Characters in a Void
  • 11 The Shaping of the Prince
  • 12 Anomalies of Place and Time
  • Notes to Part Three
  • Part Four: A Dark Fable of Love and Power
  • 13 The Perilous Equilibrium
  • 14 The Triumph of the Will
  • 15 A Map of Incommensurability
  • 16 Fictive Resolutions
  • Notes to Part Four
  • Part Five: Form and Contingency
  • 17 From Portland Place to American City
  • 18 In the Museum
  • 19 The Elusive Synthesis
  • 20 Coda: The C̀omplex Fate'
  • Notes to Part Five
  • Bibliography
  • Index.