James amongst the aesthetes / Richard Ellmann -- Henry James's permanent adolescence / John R. Bradley -- Art of friendship in Roderick Hudson / Gregory Woods -- Exchange of gifts in The American / Cheryl B. Torsney -- Failed heterosexuality in The Portrait of a Lady / Robert K. Martin -- World of female friendship / David Van Leer -- Homo-erotic desire in the tales of writers and artists / Leland S. Person -- Dearly beloved friends / Susan E. Gunter and Steven H. Jobe -- Renunciations in James's late novels / Nicolas Buchele