Monopolizing the Master: Henry James, "Publishing Scoundrels," and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship.

The article focuses on the history of author Henry James' archives and correspondence. After James' death, he left his personal papers in the care of his brother philosopher William James' family, specifically his sister-in-law Alice Howe Gibbens James and his nephew Harry James. Percy Lubbock, an Englishman of letters and friend of Henry James, was chosen to edit the correspondence in 1916, but World War I delayed publication until 1920. After the death of his mother in 1922, Harry James allowed scholar Leon Edel access to the archives in 1932, which resulted in the "Life of Henry James" in five volumes published between 1953 and 1972.