"Salmon adds a quiet, thoughtful, solidly researched contribution to an area of James studies...Most useful for graduates, researchers, and faculty." Choice

• List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Transformations of the public sphere in The Bostonians; 2. What the public wants: criticism, theatre and the 'masses'; 3. 'The insurmountable desire to know': privacy, biography and 'The Aspern Papers'; 4. The power of the press: from scandal to hunger; 5. The secret of the spectacle: advertising The Ambassadors; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"Salmon adds a quiet, thoughtful, solidly researched contribution to an area of James studies...Most useful for graduates, researchers, and faculty." Choice

• List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Transformations of the public sphere in The Bostonians; 2. What the public wants: criticism, theatre and the 'masses'; 3. 'The insurmountable desire to know': privacy, biography and 'The Aspern Papers'; 4. The power of the press: from scandal to hunger; 5. The secret of the spectacle: advertising The Ambassadors; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"Salmon adds a quiet, thoughtful, solidly researched contribution to an area of James studies...Most useful for graduates, researchers, and faculty." Choice

• List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Transformations of the public sphere in The Bostonians; 2. What the public wants: criticism, theatre and the 'masses'; 3. 'The insurmountable desire to know': privacy, biography and 'The Aspern Papers'; 4. The power of the press: from scandal to hunger; 5. The secret of the spectacle: advertising The Ambassadors; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index.