Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 491-502.

Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The art of criticism : Henry James on the theory and the practice of fiction / edited by William Veeder and Susan M. Griffin. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction -- Part One: Practicing Novelist as Practical Critic -- 1: Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism (1865) -- 2: Sainte-Beuve (1880, 1904) -- 3: Middlemarch (1873) -- 4: Honoré -- de Balzac (1875, 1878) -- 5: From Hawthorne (1879) -- 6: Ivan Turgenieff (1884, 1888) -- Part Two: The Theorist on Fiction and Culture -- 7: The Art of Fiction (1884, 1888) -- 8: Guy de Maupassant (1888) -- 9: Criticism (1891, 1893) -- 10: The Future of the Novel (1899) -- Part Three: The Master and His Prefaces -- 11: Roderick Hudson (1907) -- 12: The American (1907) -- 13: The Portrait of a Lady (1908) -- 14: The Awkward Age (1908) -- 15: What Maisie Knew (1908) -- 16: The Aspern Papers (1908) -- 17: The Wings of the Dove (1909) -- 18: The Ambassadors (1909) -- 19: The Golden Bowl (1909) -- Part Four: Genius in Old Age -- 20: Emile Zola (1903, 1914) -- 21: The Novel in The Ring and the Book (1912, 1914) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Fiction Authorship, Fiction History and criticism Theory, etc.