The Author as Arsonist: Henry James and the Paris Commune

teaches at Keele University. He is the author of Masculinities, Modernist Fiction, and the Urban Public Sphere (Manchester University Press, 2007) and coauthor of Benjamin’s Arcades: An Unguided Tour (Manchester University Press, 2006), with Peter Buse, Ken Hirschkop, and Bertrand Taithe. He is currently working on a book about literary and artistic responses to political defeat. MODERNISM / modernity VOLUME TWENTY ONE, NUMBER ONE, PP 71–87. © 2014