Abstract
Part 1 Fiction and history - James's early theory of the novel: hostility to fiction the historiographical model. Part 2 Competing with life - the earlier novels: the anti-romances - Washington Square, American, Portrait of a Lady and Princess Casamassima challenging history - Roderick Hudson, Europeans and Tragic Muse. Part 3 The old superstition about fiction being wicked: In the Cage Turn of the Screw Sacred Font. Part 4 Ambassadors and the fictional contract. Part 5 History, fiction and power in Golden Bowl. Part 6 Counter-realities - James's last phase: taking liberties with history war and counter-reality.
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