Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels

Focusing on James''s last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James''s novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James''s characters into historical and cultural contexts. Wakana begins with the premise that day-to-day living is inherently theatrical and thus duplicit...