Preface: The "Maecenas Relation" in High Culture vii -- Introduction: Beyond Expatriatism: Europe as a Career xiii -- Chapter 1 Travel Writer as Pilgrim: Career Beginnings, Initiation, and the High-Culture Mapping of Europe, 1865-1875 3 -- Chapter 2 Impressionism and Cultural Authority: Henry James as Art Critic and Art Novelist 69 -- Chapter 3 Contriving of the Connoisseur: Bernard Berenson as Mythomane of Art 127 -- Chapter 4 Maitresse de Maison Americanized: Art Hostesses and Women's High-Cultural Authority, 1880-1932 173 -- Conclusion: Career Authority and the Public in High Culture, 1865-1920 227
Notes
"A Garland series."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index