Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- THE MASTER AND THE DEAN -- Introduction -- I The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells, 1859-1884 -- 1. A Horror of Dogma -- 2. Young Americans -- 3. James's "The Art of Fiction" in Critical Context -- II The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells, 1885-1897 -- 4. Defining the Critic in the "Editor's Study" and "The Science of Criticism" -- 5. "The Honest Daylight about Us" -- 6. "American Chances and Opportunities" -- III The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells, 1898Ò 1920 -- 7. The Man of Letters as a Man of Business -- 8. James's Prefaces to the New York Edition -- 9. Howells's Literary Criticism in the "Editor's Easy Chair" and Heroines of Fiction -- 10. On Native Grounds -- Bibliography -- Index.