Chapter 1 Introduction: Henry James and Literary Pragmatism

Chapter 2 “A Sort of Loosely Compacted Person”: Charles Peirce’s Protagonist and the Institutions of the American Community

Chapter 3 Milly Theale and “The Practical Question of Life”: Anticipating Doubts and Saving Beliefs in The Wings of the Dove

Chapter 4 Cash Flow, Railways, and Gunshots: For the Good—William James and the Dialectics of Emotion and Action

Chapter 5 Maggie Verver’s “Vast Modern Machineries and Facilities”: The Art of Love and the Passion of Evil in The Golden Bowl

Chapter 6 “The Habit of the Public Mind” in the Battlefields and Marketplaces: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Pragmatic Judge and His Fellow Combatants

Chapter 7 “The State of the Account Between Society and Himself”: Hyacinth Robinson’s Soldier’s Faith in The Princess Casamassima