Henry James and Modern Moral Life

Argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding.

Acknowledgments; 1. Modern morals; 2. 'A kind of morbid modernity?'; 3. 'Crudities of mutual resistance'; 4. Beasts, secrets, and ghosts; 5. Isabel Archer's 'beastly pure mind'; 6. The 'strange logic' of Lambert Strether's 'Double consciousness'; 7. '... without your life, what have you got?' Concluding remarks; Texts by James; Bibliography.