Ruth Bernard Yeazell is Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. She is the author of Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry James (1976), Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel (1991), Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature (2000), and Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel (2009). She teaches a seminar entitled, “Henry James and the Movies.”