marcia ian is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She has most recently published, “Who Ate My Baby? Crimes of the Oral Father” in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and “The Unholy Family: From Satanism to the Chronos Complex” in jpcs: Journal of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. “Immaculate Conceptions:Henry James and the Private Sphere” is forthcoming in The Henry James Review. She is currently at work on a book entitled, America the “Secular”: The James Family and Others.
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