ABSTRACT
This chapter examines “Flickerbridge” and “‘The Velvet Glove,’” two early-twentieth-century tales of transatlantic cultural exchange, that address the shifting boundaries between discourses about nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the context of the US’s economically inflected fiction. James incorporates mutually distorting reflections of the British, American, and continental art worlds that acknowledge both American society’s British cultural inheritance together with England’s adoption of new American marketing and managerial innovations. The adoption of corporate techniques to the publishing industry promoted the circulation to Europe of mediated modes of representation manufactured in the US – the advent of the nation’s experience of transnationalism, the transfer of goods and ideas, between nations.
