Henry James's Europe

Annick Duperray is Emeritus Professor of American Literature at the Université of Provence (Aix-Marseille Université). She is volume editor for two of the four volumes of the critical edition of Henry James’s Nouvelles complètes (Editions Gallimard/Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2003). Her publications include an analytical study of Henry James’s tales, Echec etécriture : essai sur les nouvelles d’Henry James (1993) and a contribution to Henry James in Context (David McWhirter ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010). She also edited The Reception of Henry James in Europe (Continuum Books, 2006).

Adrian Harding teaches Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris and American Literature at the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille). Besides poetry, his publications include Blinds, a Study of the Aesthetics of Fiction (Lebeer Hossmann, 1985) and A Survey of English Literature: the 20th Century (Dunod, 1992). He has written extensively on modern narrative, on poetics and on contemporary art, including articles on realism and narrative poetics in Henry James. His most recent book,with photographs by Alecio de Andrade and a preface by Edgar Morin, is Louvre Blinds: Le Louvre et ses visiteurs (Le Passage, 2009).