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114—“
of a new adventure
”: R. W. B. Lewis,
The American Adam
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), 5.

114—“
to leave the past
”: P, 222.

114—“
the supremacy of the individual
”: LC1, 383.

114—“
you think

. . .

called I
”: Emerson, “The Transcendentalist” (1841). Like both “History” and “Self-Reliance,” it forms a chapter in Emerson’s
Essays: First Series
.

115—“
ripe unconsciousness of evil
”: LC1, 254.

115—“
no special providence
”: Quoted in Gordon Wood,
Revolutionary Characters
(New York: Penguin, 2006), 181.

115—“a man’s Me”: The passage comes in Chapter XII. See
William James: Writings, 1878–1899
(New York: Library of America, 1992), 174–75. I am grateful to Bill Brown’s
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) for making this connection between the work of the two brothers.

116—“
the self as known

. . .

as knower
”:
William James
:
Writings
,
1878–1899
, 174.

116—“
empirical aggregate

. . .

be an aggregate
”:
William James
:
Writings
,
1878–1899
, 208.

116—“
Whatever I may
”:
William James
:
Writings
,
1878–1899
, 174.

PART THREE: ITALIAN JOURNEYS
CHAPTER 10: BELLOSGUARDO HOURS

121—“
well spoken of
”:
Baedeker’s Northern Italy
, 5th ed. (Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1879), 342.

122—“
If you’re an aching alien
”: CTW2, 403.

122—“
big enough
”: Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Letters, 1857–1864
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987), 150–51.

122—“
a little grassy

. . .

front
”: P, 423.

123—“
colored a dull
”: From
Roderick Hudson
in Henry James,
Novels, 1871–1880
(New York: Library of America, 1983), 455.

123—“
peeping up
”: CTW2, 520.

124—“
incommunicative

. . .

no eyes
”: P, 423.

124—“
We are a wretched

. . .

anywhere
”: P, 392.

125—“
He is Gilbert

. . .

no anything
”: P, 393.

125—“
American absentees
”: P, 408.

125—“
can you get
”: P, 411.

126—“
unsatisfactory life
”: Nathaniel Hawthorne,
French and Italian Notebooks
, ed. Thomas Woodson (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1980), 437.

126—“
sombre kind
”: Ibid., 442.

126—“
hardly spoken to
”: To Grace Norton, 14 January 1874.

127—“
had been exactly

. . .

unemployed
”: CTW2, 396–97.

127—“
a rounded pearl
”: To William James, 27 December 1869.

128—“
the clatter of
”: LC2, 1043.

128—“
easy, friendly
”: To Catherine Walsh, 3 May 1880, unpublished.

128—“
one is liable
”: To Alice James, 25 April 1880.

128—“
an unconventional
”: PLHJ, 151.

129—“
my true country
”: Leon Edel prints the four surviving letters from Woolson to James in vol. 3 of his edition of James’s letters. See
Henry James Letters
, vol. 3 (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980), 551.

129—“
if your sentence
”: “Miss Grief,” in
Lippincott’s Maga
z
ine
, May 1880. Repr., in Constance Fenimore Woolson,
Selected Stories and Travel Narratives
, ed. Victoria Brehm and Sharon L. Dean (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004), 209.

130—“
amiable, but deaf
”: To Alice James, 25 April 1880.

130—“
authoress

. . .

intense
”: To Catherine Walsh, 3 May 1880, unpublished.

130—“
horrible ignorance
”: Letter from spring 1880 to a Mrs. Crowell, in
Five Generations, Part Second—Constance Fenimore Woolson,
arranged and edited by Clare Benedict (London, 1930), 188. This is a privately printed collection of letters and papers from Woolson’s extended family, compiled by her niece.

130—“
likes to be
”: From “A Florentine Experiment,” in Woolson,
Selected Stories
, P. 228.

131—“
the two destroyed
”:
Henry James Letters
, vol. 3, 524.

131—“
that sweet young American
”: Ibid., 545.

132—“
you said, in answer
”: Ibid., 539.

CHAPTER 11: MR. OSMOND

133—“
pass for anything
”: P, 425.

133—“
for the consideration
”: P, 463.

133—“
not to strive
”: P, 462.

134—“
approached each other
”: P, 437.

134—“
I know plenty
”: P, 437.

134—“
it seem more
”: P, 445.

135—“
as if, once
”: P, 451.

135—“
to types which
”: PNY, 459.

135—“
studious life

. . .

fatherhood
”: P, 476.

136—“
she is a little
”: P, 464.

136—“
that man
”: P, 474.

136—“
coarse imputation

. . .

by selfishness
”: P, 504.

136—“
wilful renunciation
”: P, 462.

137—“
good humour
”: P, 502.

137—“
are perfect
”: P, 439.

137—“
for a cabinet
”: CTW2, 360.

138—“
mental constitution
”: To Alice James, 25 April 1880.

139—“
Italianate bereft

. . .

Gilbert Osmond
”: A, 522.

139—“
traditionary
”: P, 425.

139—“
as the only
”: P, 439.

140—“
looking very well
”: P, 437.

140—“
the girl is not

. . .

sacrificed
”: P, 483–84.

CHAPTER 12:
STRANIERI

141—“
passing travellers
”: Augustus Hare,
Walks in Rome
(New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1873), 1.

142—“
the fresh, cool
”: P, 485.

143—“
a young lady
”:
The Letters of Henry Adams
, vol. 1:
1858–1868
, ed. J. C. Levenson et al. (Cambridge and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982), 135.

143—“
as if it were Clapham
”: P, 490.

143—“
I have first or last
”: To William James, 9 April 1873.

143—“
a double ruin
”:
Journals of John Cheever
, ed. Susan Cheever (New York: Knopf, 1991), 72.

144—“
palpable imaginable
”: LC2, 1177.

144—“
what the grand
”: Henry James,
William Wetmore Story and His Friends
, 2 vols. (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1903), vol. 1, 341.

145—“
cleverness

. . .

is greater
”: To Charles Eliot Norton, 31 March 1873.

145—“
precursors
”:
William Wetmore Story and His Friends
, vol. 1, 3.

145—“
consciousness of the complicated
”: Ibid., 6.

146—
The historian John Pemble
: These figures, and Pemble’s explanation, come from personal correspondence, an email of 23 September 2007.

146—
travel writer Bayard Taylor
: See
Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor
, ed. Marie Hansen-Taylor and Horace E. Scudder. 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895), vol. 2, 490.

146—“
Americans Abroad
”:
Lippincott’s
, May 1894, 679.

146—
Murray and Baedeker
: The picture of the Anglo-American business community here is a composite drawn from the following editions:
A Handbook of Rome and Its Environs
, 5th ed. (London: John Murray, 1858), 11th ed. (1872), 12th ed. (1881);
Central Italy and Rome
, 9th ed. (Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1886).

147—“
remarkably ugly
”: To Alice James, 10 February 1873.

148—“
at all regret
”: To Henry James, Sr., 4 March 1873.

148—“
I doubt that
”: To William James, 9 April 1873.

148—“
in the position
”: To Mary James, 24 March 1873.

149—“
without relations
”: To Mary James, 26 January 1873.

149—“
curl up, like
”:
Letters of Henry Adams
, vol. 5, p. 524.

149—“
It seems stupid
”: Edith Wharton,
The Age of Innocence
, ch. 24.

150—“
with its economical
”: CTW2, 392.

150—“
the ruins of
”: P, 723

151—“
imported

. . .

moral responsibility
”: LC1, 363.

152—“
dingy drollery
”: CTW2, 416.

153—“
a terrible game
”: CTW2, 421.

153—“
I made no vows
”:
The Prelude
, Book IV, ll. 341–42.

153—“
close seat
”: To Mary James, 24 March 1873.

153—“
the very source
”: CTW2, 440.

153—“
unbroken continuity

. . .

one else.
”: CTW2, 444.

CHAPTER 13: AN UNCERTAIN TERRAIN

155—“
I didn’t come
”: P, 493.

155—“
good fellow

. . .

he’s not
”: P, 495.

156—“
Does she

. . .

horribly
”: PNY, 298.

156—“
qualified herself
”: P, 501.

157—“
one ought to
”: P, 507.

157—“
that I find
”: P, 509.

157—“
immense sweetness
”: P, 509.

157—“
ought to have
”: Ibid.

158—“
the sharpness of the pang
”: PNY, 310.

158—“
behind bolts
”: P, 222.

158—
Matthew Arnold
: “The Buried Life,” ll. 84–85.

158—“
everything that’s proper

. . .

itself
”: P, 511.

158—“
agitation

. . .

treacherous
”: P, 512.

159—
ellipses in its narrative
: I borrow this word from Millicent Bell, and my argument is indebted to her account of Isabel’s resistance to and acceptance of plot.

160—“
individual technique
”: Graham Greene, “The Dark Backward,” in
Collected Essays
(1964; repr., Penguin, 1970), 56.

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