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An epilogue to a volume of essays risks appearing no more than a supplement, superfluous to the real thing. Yet this subject entails revisiting. It is of the essence not merely to return but to haunt, to hang around, to hint at unfinished business.

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  1. Henry James, Preface, The Princess Casamassima, in The Novels and Tales of Henry James, vol. 5 (New York: Scribner’s, 1908), ix.

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  2. Henry James, Preface, The Wings of the Dove, in The Novels and Tales of Henry James, vol. 19 (New York: Scribner’s, 1909), vi.

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  3. Henry James, Preface, The Ambassadors, in The Novels and Tales of Henry James, vol. 21 (New York: Scribner’s, 1909), vi.

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  4. Henry James, “February 5th, 1895,” in The Complete Notebooks of Henry James, ed. Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 112.

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  5. Henry James, The Ambassadors, in The Novels and Tales of Henry James, vol. 22 (New York: Scribner’s, 1909), 270.

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© 2011 Anna Despotopoulou and Kimberly C. Reed

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Bradbury, N. (2011). Epilogue: Ghost Writing. In: Despotopoulou, A., Reed, K.C. (eds) Henry James and the Supernatural. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119840_11

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