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Tables of Contents for The Finer Thread, the Tighter Weave
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3
12
Joseph Dewey
Part One: Threads
The Ineluctability of Form: ``The Madonna of the Future''
15
15
Adam Bresnick
All about ``Author-ity'': When the Disciple Becomes the Master in ``The Author of Beltraffio''
30
12
Jeraldine R. Kraver
``The Deepest Depths of the Artificial'': Attacking Women and Reality in ``The Aspern Papers''
42
27
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
The Spoils of Service: ``Brooksmith''
69
13
Rory Drummond
The (Im) Possibility of ``The Private Life''
82
23
Karen Scherzinger
The Shining Page: ``The Altar of the Dead'' as Metafiction
105
12
Daniel Won-gu Kim
Collapsing Inside and Outside: Reading ``The Friends of the Friends''
117
9
Patricia Laurence
The Telegraphist as Writer in ``In the Cage''
126
13
Molly Vaux
The Lady Is the Tiger: Looking at May Bartram in ``The Beast in the Jungle'' from the ``Other Side''
139
10
Lomeda Montgomery
``Some pantomimic ravishment'': ``Broken Wings'' and the Performance of Success
149
11
Annette Gilson
The Language and Imagery of ``The Jolly Corner''
160
9
Earl Rovit
Too Good to Be True: ``Mora Montravers''
169
12
Michael Pinker
Part Two: Weaves
``A Landscape Painter'' and ``The Middle Years'': Failures of the Amateur
181
19
Brooke Horvath
A Connection More Charming Than in Life: The Refusal of Consolation in ``The Altar of the Dead''
200
17
Kristin Boudreau
Trapping the Gaze: Objects of Desire in James's Early and Late Fiction
217
18
Phyllis van Slyck
Metafiction as the Real Thing
235
17
Joseph Wiesenfarth
Manet, ``The Turn of the Screw,'' and the Voyeuristic Imagination
252
29
Daniel R. Schwarz
Contributors
281
4
Index
285