September 3, 1999

Verbatim

By SCOTT HELLER

Henry James and Sexuality by Hugh Stevens (Cambridge University Press)

"Modern notions of sexual identity inform James's writing profoundly," argues Hugh Stevens, a lecturer in literature at the University of York, in England. Applying queer theory to the author's famously ambiguous novels and short stories, he places James at a pivotal moment in history: a time when homosexual behavior was

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