June Hee Chung is Associate Professor of late-19th and early-20th Century American literature at DePaul University in Chicago. Her work centers on the intersections of commercial practices and cosmopolitanism in the arts. She has published essays on Henry James and economic history for American Literature, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge Press, and she is completing a book on American Orientalism and decorative material culture in early-20th century women’s fiction.

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• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Henry James, Commercial Cosmopolitanism, and the Historical Formation of Mass CultureChapter 1 Traditional Cosmopolitanism and Mass Culture in James’s Early FictionChapter 2 The Anglo-American Newspaper Industry, Commercialized Celebrity, and the New Journalistic StyleChapter 3 Writing Machines: The Question of Cosmopolitan Opportunities for Mass-Produced Short Fiction Chapter 4 Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The AmbassadorsChapter 5 The Sacred in the Profane: "The Old Things" and Spiritual Realism in Summersoft and The Wings of the DoveChapter 6 That "Rare Power of Purchase:" The Material Advantage of Acquiring Cosmopolitan Skills in The Golden BowlEpilogue Art Consumption in James’s Last WritingsIndex

June Hee Chung is Associate Professor of late-19th and early-20th Century American literature at DePaul University in Chicago. Her work centers on the intersections of commercial practices and cosmopolitanism in the arts. She has published essays on Henry James and economic history for American Literature, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge Press, and she is completing a book on American Orientalism and decorative material culture in early-20th century women’s fiction.

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• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Henry James, Commercial Cosmopolitanism, and the Historical Formation of Mass CultureChapter 1 Traditional Cosmopolitanism and Mass Culture in James’s Early FictionChapter 2 The Anglo-American Newspaper Industry, Commercialized Celebrity, and the New Journalistic StyleChapter 3 Writing Machines: The Question of Cosmopolitan Opportunities for Mass-Produced Short Fiction Chapter 4 Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The AmbassadorsChapter 5 The Sacred in the Profane: "The Old Things" and Spiritual Realism in Summersoft and The Wings of the DoveChapter 6 That "Rare Power of Purchase:" The Material Advantage of Acquiring Cosmopolitan Skills in The Golden BowlEpilogue Art Consumption in James’s Last WritingsIndex