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The Portrait of a Lady is arguably Henry James's most appealing and accessible novel. The introduction to this volume of specially written essays situates the novel in its cultural and historical context: its treatment of a modern woman 'affronting' her destiny, its relation to the contemporary controversy over 'morality' in fiction, its use of an Italian setting, and its late nineteenth century elegiac mood. It also discusses James's revisions of the novel and his late Preface. The essays that follow deal with the place of Portrait in the tradition of modern narrative, its relation to popular women's fiction on the question of marriage, the influence of James's 'family romance' and his brother William, and the character of Isabel Archer seen from a psychoanalytic point of view.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: New Essays on 'The Portrait of a Lady'
• Author: Joel Porte
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 178
• EAN: 9780521345088
• ISBN: 0521345081
• ID: 02028072
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 378 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. January 1990

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