Inexorable Yankeehood: Henry James rediscovers America, 1904-1905

Matters of method : the "embracing mind"

Anticipation and arrival : the beginning critique

Publication and publicity : first skirmishes

The gaping continent : "in the jaws of the world"

The testifying south : "sad on the great scale"

The visual archive : "observed of all observers"

The middle west : "my very next 'big' impression"

The New England essays : first impressions at last

The far west : "crude color...in the woolly west"

James returns to the east : double take

Envoi : "black eruptions of type"

Conclusion : James's "American theory"

Coda : "original response"

Appendix I: Chronology of James's travels in America

Appendix II: Poem (anonymous) accompanying the caricature "The verbal prestidigitateur" in the "Through the microscope" column of the Indianapolis News on March 17,1905.