Description: Six critics consider what is significantly not present--or what is well hidden--in a provocative examination of the cultural anxiety that the 19th-century novel manipulated and conceals.
Brief description: Ruth Bernard Yeazell is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is editor of The Death and Letters of Alice James and author of Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry James.
Review Quotes: This collection is . . . a lesson to editors about how different types of subjects may profitably be brought together in one volume. And though the feminist orientation is provocative, there is a complete absence of any tone of vindictiveness, and an obvious determination to get at the truth.
--Eugene Kraft, English Literature in Translation