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|  Philip Horne in front of Henry James's last home, at 21 Carlyle Mansions in Chelsea |
Education and Experience
I received my MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and held a Research Fellowship at Christ鈥檚 College, Cambridge before moving to 最准的六合彩论坛. Henry James is my central literary interest; I have served as the President of the International Henry James Society, delivered the Henry James lecture at the Rye Festival, and talked about James in the UK, the US, China, Japan, Australia, France and Italy. I organised two Henry James conferences in London, in 2012 and (on the centenary of his death) 2016. I have worked a good deal in US archives, and have also taught two semesters at Dartmouth College.
I have a strong interest in film as well as in literature, an interest which takes many forms, but has included a sustained effort to restore the reputation of the neglected British film director Thorold Dickinson, resulting in a book (see below). I organised a centenary conference in 2003, and seasons at the British Film Institute and the Barbican Centre; in 2008 I introduced Dickinson films in New York and at Yale.
I have interviewed filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, John Boorman, Michael Haneke, Richard Linklater, Alexander Payne and Terence Davies. I have written on literature and film for newspapers and magazines, including an enjoyable decade doing regular reviews of films on DVD for the听Daily Telegraph.
Research
My first book was听Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition听(OUP, 1990), a scholarly and also a critical and theoretical study of James鈥檚 extraordinary revisionary activity. My next project was听Henry James: A Life in Letters听(Penguin, 1999), an experimental variation on the Victorian form of the Life-and-Letters.
I was co-editor with Peter Swaab of听Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film听(Manchester UP, 2008); and, with Tamara Follini, of a special issue of the听Cambridge Quarterly听entitled听Henry James in the Modern World听(2008). I have also edited Henry James,听A London Life听&听The Reverberator听(for Oxford World鈥檚 Classics), as well as Henry James,听The Tragic Muse听and Charles Dickens,听Oliver Twist听(both for Penguin).
In 2018 I published Tales from a Master鈥檚 Notebook: Stories Henry James Never Wrote (Vintage), a collection of new stories by major contemporary novelists inspired by unused ideas from Henry James鈥檚 notebooks.
I am Series Editor of the Penguin Classics Henry James, for which I completed an edition of听The Portrait of a Lady in 2011.
I am also the founding General Editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of听The Complete Fiction of Henry James听(planned in 34 volumes, of which 9 were out by the end of 2020). I am editing two volumes myself,听The Golden Bowl听and the听Notebooks, and co-editing another, A Landscape Painter and Other Tales with Emily Coit and Tamara Follini.
Another long-term project is a book on the relationship between Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt.
As well as essays on many aspects of Henry James, I have written on a wide range of subjects, including telephones and literature, zombies and consumer culture, Floods, Bob Dylan and the Mississippi, the films of Powell and Pressburger and of Martin Scorsese, the texts of Emily Dickinson, the narrators of Dickens and the criticism of F.R. Leavis. My research interests鈥攁part from Henry James鈥攊nclude literary allusion, literature and politics, and the relations between the living and the dead in film. I have supervised PhDs on a variety of topics including Geoffrey Hill and John Milton, feral children in literature, the films of Powell and Pressburger, James and religion, boredom and the novel, the films of Kieslowski, Edith Wharton, modernity and the cinema, the grotesque in 1930s Hollywood, Tennyson鈥檚 afterlives, James鈥檚 late non-fiction, James and the domestic interior, James and transport, revision in contemporary literature and the literary agent James Brand Pinker.
My editing work, and interest in the conditions of authorship, align me closely with the听Editions听strand of the Department鈥檚 research profile (I organised the conference on it in December 2019); while my biographical work puts me squarely in the field of 'Life Stories'. Because James was on the whole an intensely metropolitan writer, and because much of cinema is concerned with urban experience,听The City听is also a significant presence in my research.
Selected Publications
Books
Henry James: A Life in Letters, Penguin, 1999.
Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Edited Books and Journal Issues
Tales from a Master鈥檚 Notebook: Stories Henry James Never Wrote, Vintage 2018.
Co-ed. with Peter Swaab,听Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film听(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008).
Co-ed. with Tamara Follini,听Henry James in the Modern World, special issue of听Cambridge Quarterly, 37. 1 (March 2008). Contributors: Michael Anesko, R.D. Gooder, Tamara Follini, Philip Horne, Christopher Ricks, Adrian Poole, Millicent Bell, Jonathan Freedman, Nicola Bradbury, Max Saunders, Jean Gooder, Sergio Perosa, T.J. Lustig.
Ed. with Introduction, Charles Dickens,听Oliver, Penguin Classics, 2002.
Ed. with Introduction, Henry James,听The Tragic Muse, Penguin Classics, 1995.
Ed. with Introduction,听Pardon My Delay: Letters from Henry James to Bruce Richmond, The Foundling Press, 1994.
Ed. with Introduction, Henry James,听A London Life听&听The Reverberator, Oxford World鈥檚 Classics, 1989.
Articles
鈥樷�淢ildly Theatrical鈥�: Attending (to) The Awkward Age鈥�,听Henry James Review, 41(3), 2020, 271-279.
鈥楾hree and a Half Hours with Scorsese鈥�, interview, on The Irishman, Sight & Sound, November 2019, 20-29.
鈥楬enry James on the Bench鈥�, May 2019, Henry James Review, 40.2, Spring 2019, 155-174.
鈥楽trings of Pearls: James, Maupassant, 鈥淧aste鈥濃��, Literary Imagination, 21(2), July 2019, 137-157.
鈥楽ense of the West: When Henry James visited California鈥�, Times Literary Supplement, 21 September 2018, 3-4.听听听听听听听听
鈥楻emembering Karl Miller鈥�, editing, introduction, conclusion and linking passages, Raritan, Fall 2017, 37.2, 1-35.
鈥楬enry James, Winchelsea, Rye and Denis Duval鈥�, Henry James Review, Fall 2017, 38(3), 219-230.
鈥楬enry James and the Pagoda鈥�, in Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and the West: The Co-Constitutive nature of the Cosmopolite Spirit, ed. Choon-Hee Kim, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, 93-115.
鈥楢 Last Wintering鈥�, on James鈥檚 last illness, death and funeral, Times Literary Supplement, 4 March 2016, 16-17.
鈥楾he Interview: John Boorman鈥�, career-spanning interview, Sight & Sound, May 2015, 48-52.
鈥楶oodle and Bull Moose鈥�, on Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt in 1914, Times Literary Supplement, Issue 5802, 13 June 2014, 13-15.
鈥楩lood Songs, Dylan and the Mississippi Blues鈥�, Raritan, 33(2), Fall 2013, 30-66. (ISSN 0275-1607).
鈥楶assing Through鈥�, article and interview with Richard Linklater about Before Midnight, Sight & Sound, July 2013, 30-34.
鈥楥lough, James and Amours de Voyage: a Juxtaposition鈥�, Literary Imagination, 15(1), February 2013, 89-104.
鈥楶olanski and the Grotesque鈥�, Sight & Sound, February 2013, 40-44.
鈥楾he Man Who Wasn鈥檛 There鈥� (review-essay on Polanski鈥檚 The Ghost), Sight & Sound, May 2010, 38-41. ()
鈥榃e鈥檒l Go for Flamboyance鈥�, on Thorold Dickinson鈥檚 The Queen of Spades, Sight & Sound, January 2010, 9.
鈥楻evisitings and Revisions in the听New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James鈥�, in听The Blackwell Companion to Henry James, ed. Greg Zacharias, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, 208-230.
鈥樷�淎 palpable imaginable听visitable听past鈥�: Henry James and the Eighteenth Century鈥�,听Eighteenth-Century Life, 32(2), Spring 2008, 14-28.
鈥業ntroduction: Henry James in the Modern World鈥�; 鈥樷�淩einstated鈥�: James in Roosevelt鈥檚 Washington鈥�,听Cambridge Quarterly听Special Issue on 鈥楬enry James in the Modern World鈥�, 37(1), March 2008, 1-2; 47-63.
Preface to听Henry James鈥檚 Waistcoat, ed. Rosalind Bleach, York: Stone Trough Books, 2007.
鈥楬enry James and the 鈥渇orces of violence鈥�: on the track of 鈥渂ig game鈥� in 鈥淭he Jolly Corner鈥濃��,听Henry James Review, 27(3), 2006, 237-247.
鈥楾he Presence of Henry James in European Cinema鈥�, in Duperray, A. (ed.)听The Reception of Henry James in Europe, Reception of British Authors in Europe series; Series ed. Elinor Shaffer, London: Continuum, 2006, 260-282.
鈥楲ife and Death in听A Matter of Life and Death鈥�, in Ian Christie & Andrew Moor (eds),听The Cinema of Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-Maker, London: British Film Institute, 2005, 117-131.
鈥淗enry James Among the Poets鈥� (Henry James Lecture, Rye Festival 2002),听Henry James Review, 26(1), Winter 2005, 68-81.
鈥楾he Biography of 鈥淒aisy Miller鈥濃�� in Reed, K., Beidler, P.G. (eds.)听Approaches to Teaching Henry James鈥檚 鈥楧aisy Miller鈥� and 鈥楾he Turn of the Screw鈥�, New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2005, 46-52.
鈥楯ames, Henry (1843鈥�1916)鈥�,听Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
鈥淗enry James and the Cultural Frame of the New York Edition鈥�, in听The Culture of Collected Editions, ed. Andrew Nash, Palgrave: Basingstoke, 2003, 95-110.
鈥楾he Poetry of Possibilities: Emily Dickinson鈥檚 Texts鈥�,听Women鈥檚 Studies听3 (2002), 725-738.
鈥�The Age of Innocence: Scorsese, Wharton, James鈥�,听Film Studies: An international review, Issue 3, Spring 2002, 5-17.
鈥楳artin Scorsese and the Film Between the Living and the Dead鈥�,听Raritan, 21(1), Summer 2001, 34-51.
鈥楬enry James: Varieties of Cinematic Experience鈥�, in听Henry James on Stage and Screen, edited by John Bradley, Palgrave, 2000, 35-55.
鈥極n the Phone: Some Connections鈥�,听Raritan, 18(3), Winter 1999, 103-122.
鈥楻etreats and Recognitions: Scorsese鈥檚听Kundun鈥�,听Film Studies: An international review, Issue 1, Spring 1999, 95-96.
鈥楶oets and Prophets: Geoffrey Hill in America鈥�,听Symbiosis, 2(2), October 1998, 161-174.
鈥楬enry James at Work: The Question of Our Texts鈥�, chapter in听The Cambridge Companion to Henry James, edited by Jonathan Freedman, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 63-78.
鈥楾he Master and the 鈥淨ueer Affair鈥� of 鈥淭he Pupil鈥濃��, in听Henry James: The Shorter Fiction, edited by N.H. Reeve, Macmillan 1997, 114-137.
鈥楬enry James and the Economy of the Short Story鈥�, chapter in听Modernist Writers and the Marketplace, edited by Ian Willison, Warwick Gould and Warren Chernaik, Macmillan 1996, 1-35.
鈥楾he Lessons of Flaubert: James and听L鈥橢ducation Sentimentale鈥�,听The Yearbook of English Studies 1996: Strategies of Reading: Dickens and After, Vol. 26, edited by Nicola Bradbury, 154-162.
鈥楾he English Novel 1900-1914鈥�, in听The Penguin History of Literature, Volume 7: The Twentieth Century, edited by Martin Dodsworth, Harmondsworth 1994, 65-108.
鈥楻evealers and Concealers鈥�, Essays in听Criticism, 43(4), October 1993, 273-283.
鈥業 Shopped with a Zombie鈥�, on the cultural significance of the zombie,听Critical Quarterly, 34(4), Winter 1992, 97-110.
鈥榃riting and Rewriting in Henry James鈥�,听Journal of American Studies, 1989, 23(3), 357-374.
鈥� Independent Beauty鈥�, on James鈥檚 criticism,听Journal of American Studies, 1987 21(1), 87-93.
鈥� The Editing of James鈥檚 Letters鈥�,听The Cambridge Quarterly, Spring 1986, 126-141.
鈥楢 Bibliography of Works by and about Geoffrey Hill鈥�, in听Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work, edited by Peter Robinson, Open University Press, 1985, 237-251.