Patricia McKee demonstrates that Richardson Eliot and James see disorderliness and indeterminacy in the human self human relations and literature as primary sources of meaningfulness The relationships these novels portray as most satisfying are unsettled and unsettling interfering with rather than contributing to social stability Originally published in 1986 The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print on demand technology to again make available previously out of print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905