Abstract
The first thing that must be said of this book, the sixth of Adeline Tintner's surveys of everything that went into a James text and everything that has come out of them, is that it is bound somewhere to contain the essential piece of information that a James scholar is looking for, so that, used encyclopedically, it is very useful and full of unexpected details. The title conveys Adeline Tintner's intention, though the word "figure" in it may need glossing: Tintner is as interested in James's influence as a literary figure and as a personality as she is in the influence of his texts. She runs through a range of writers who have used James, some only familiar because of James, and further looks at James in films and in art, including book-illustration. A chapter on Leon Edel's biography of James, which she calls the "Baedeker" for people wishing to visit James (437), reminds us of Tintner's comparable aim to be similarly complete and more than suggests where her own allegiances lie.
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