Preview	Issue Date	Title	Author(s)
	2021	Listening to/and James: A Look Back at the 8th International Conference of the Henry James Society	Iannuzzi, Giulia
	2021	Sounds Strangely Familiar: John Banville’s Jamesian Pastiche	Layne, Bethany
	2021	The Sound of “Scenarios”	Ross, Melanie
	2021	“Mildly Theatrical”: Attending (to) The Awkward Age	Horne, Philip
	2021	The Sound of the “Right Letter”: An Attempt at Deciphering “The Figure in the Carpet”	Zieliński, Jan
	2021	Imitation and the Construction of Tradition: Henry James and the Representation of the American Voice	Sonoko, Saito
	2021	Liquid Sound, Fluid Gender: Speech and Sexuality in the New York Edition’s “The Siege of London”	Lawrence, Kathleen
	2021	“All the voices and light footsteps”: Macbeth and the Incantatory Power of Speech in “The Aspern Papers”	Di Biase, Carmine G.
	2021	119 The … in the Jungle: The Sounds—and the Sounding—of Silence in Late James	Anesko, Michael
	2021	Sound, Speech and Silence in “The Jolly Corner”	Chen, Li
	2021	The Haunted Theater of Fiction: Silence and Sound in “The Turn of the Screw”	Kitahara, Taeko
	2021	“I keep a band of music in my ante-room”: Henry James and the Sound of Introspection	Despotopoulou, Anna
	2021	Music in The Sacred Fount	O’Leary, Joseph S.
	2021	“… between absolute silence and absolute sound”: Orchestrating the Action in Henry James’s The Saloon	MacCormack, Dee
	2021	Henry James: “In the Minor Key”	Scott, Rebekah
	2021	Henry James and Music	Walker, Pierre A.
	2021	Introduction	BUONOMO, LEONARDO
	2021	The Sound of James. The Aural Dimension in Henry James’s Work. Papers from the 8th International Conference of the Henry James Society. Trieste, 4-6 July 2019

This volume collects revised and, in some cases, considerably expanded versions of papers originally delivered at the 8^th International Conference of the Henry James Society, held in Trieste, in July 2019. As its title and subtitle announce, this publication intends to highlight, and examine, James’s relation to, and literary use of, sound in its various manifestations and forms: music (performed and/or listened to; used in stage or film adaptations), speech (with all its connotations of national or regional provenance, social background and gender), noise, and the often very eloquent absence of sound, namely silence. By delving into this hitherto underrated aspect of James’s writing, the contributors to this volume offer fresh and insightful perspectives on some of his most celebrated works (such as The Portrait of a Lady or “The Beast in the Jungle”), as well as on his lesser-known tales and plays. Most importantly, they encourage us to become attuned to, and appreciate in new ways, the utterly unique sound of James’s language.

Leonardo Buonomo teaches American literature at the University of Trieste, Italy. He has written exte entury American literature, Italian American literature, and American popular culture. His latest book is Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830‑1860: Reading the Stranger (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2014). In 2018 he contributed to Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context, ed. Monika Elbert (Cambridge UP). In 2019 he served as President of the Henry James Society. More recently, he has contributed to a special issue of the journal Humanities on “Forms of Literary Relations in Henry James,” edited by Simone Francescato (2021) and the forthcoming volume Republics and Empires: Italian and American Art in Transnational Perspective, 184 by Melissa Dabakis and Paul H. D. Kaplan (Manchester UP, 2021).