Bibliography

Ricks, Beatrice. Henry James: A Bibliography of Secondary Works. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 461 p.

Contains a bibliography of criticism and early reviews of Daisy Miller.

Criticism

Cargill, Oscar. An Introduction to Washington Square and Daisy Miller, by Henry James, pp. vii-xxv. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956.

Outlines sources for Daisy Miller and compares the work to James's novel Washington Square.

Coffin, Tristram P. "Notes and Queries." Western Folklore XVII, No. 4 (October 1958): 273-75.

Claims that in her "independence of thought and action," "laudable innocence," and "straightforward distrust of subtlety" Daisy Miller is similar to the heroes of western cowboy novels.

"Daisy Miller; and The Laughing Mill." The Saturday Review (London) 47, No. 1,227 (3 May 1879): 561-62.

Generally positive review of Daisy Miller that nevertheless finds the story's conclusion dissatisfying.

Dunbar, Viola R. "The Revision of Daisy Miller." Modern Language Notes LXV, No. 5 (May 1950): 311-17.

Surveys revisions James made for the 1909 New York Edition of Daisy Miller.

Dupee, F. W. "The Tree of Knowledge." In Henry James, pp. 74-112. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956.

Includes a discussion of Daisy Miller as an ironic tribute to the American girl.

Fiedler, Leslie A. "The Revenge on Woman: From Lucy to Lolita." In Love and Death in the American Novel, pp. 291-336. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.

Briefly comments on Daisy Miller as being "finally and unequivocally innocent" despite the uproar of indignation her character created among American readers.

Geist, Stanley. "Portraits From a Family Album." The Hudson Review V, No. 2 (Summer 1952): 203-6.

Study of Daisy's character that emphasizes her "absolute metaphysical freedom" in conflict with the realities of modern society.

Goodspeed, Edgar J. "A Footnote to Daisy Miller," The Atlantic Monthly 153, No. 2 (February 1934): 252-53.

Suggests a possible real-life source for the character of Daisy Miller.

Hoffman, Michael J. "Realism as Vision and Style." In The Subversive Vision: American Romanticism in Literature, pp. 101-28. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1972.

Explores Daisy Miller's theme of an innocent individual in a repressive society.

Newberry, Frederick. "A Note on the Horror in James's Revision of Daisy Miller." Henry James Review III, No. 3 (Spring 1982): 229-32.

Observes James's multiple inclusions of the word "horror" in the 1909 revision of Daisy Miller, noting a verbal play on its similarity to the word "whore" and its consequent bearing on interpretations of Daisy's character.

"Recent Novels." The Nation (New York) XXVII, No. 703 (19 December 1878): 386-89.

Includes a review of Daisy Miller that calls the work a "true" and "clever" study of character.

Review of Daisy Miller. Harper's New Monthly Magazine LVIII, No. CCCXLIV (January 1879): 310.

Short commentary on the unrealistic qualities of Daisy and her mother.

White, Richard Grant. "Recent Fiction." North American Review CXXVIII, No. 266 (January 1879): 91-110.

Contains a brief review of Daisy Miller that comments on the nature of the title character as a faithful portrait of "a certain sort of American young woman."

Additional coverage of James's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1865-1917; Contemporary Autbors, Vols. 104, 132; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 12, 71, 74; Major Twentieth-Century Writers, Short Story Criticism, Vol. 8; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 2,11, 24, 40, 47; World Literature Criticism.