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Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Joel Porte -- The portrait of a lady and modern narrative / Donatella Izzo -- The fatherless heroine and the filial son / Alfred Habegger -- The portrait of a lack / William Veeder -- Frail vessels and vast designs : a psychoanalytic portrait of Isabel Archer / Beth Sharon Ash.…”

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Table of Contents: “…'Emma's daughters': a study in isolation and creativity -- Emma Woodhouse: self-portrait of a lady -- Emma Bovary: muse in a shop window -- Dorothea Brooke: the reluctant aesthete -- Isabel Archer: the Architect of Consciousness.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The 'Colour of Life' in The Portrait of a Lady --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Henry James : the private universe ; Henry James : the religious aspect ; The portrait of a lady ; The plays of Henry James ; The dark backward ; Two friends ; From feathers to iron ; Fielding and Sterne ; Servants of the novel ; Romance in Pimlico ; The young Dickens ; Hans Andersen ; François Mauriac ; Bernanos, the beginner ; The burden of childhood ; Man made angry ; G.K. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Henry James's The portrait of a lady --…”

Table of Contents: “…The early phase -- Romola to Middlemarch -- Daniel Deronda and The Portrait of a lady -- Henry James. To The Portrait of a Lady -- The later James -- Joseph Conrad. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The early phase -- Romola to Middlemarch -- Daniel Deronda and The Portrait of a lady -- Henry James. To The Portrait of a Lady -- The later James -- Joseph Conrad. …”

Table of Contents: “…The Europeans, Washington Square, Daisy Miller -- The portrait of a lady -- The Bostonians -- What Maisie knew -- The awkward age, The ambassadors -- The wings of the dove -- The golden bowl.…”

Table of Contents: “…Washington Square -- 2. The Portrait of a Lady -- 3. The Princess Casamassima -- 4. …”

Table of Contents: “…Daniel Deronda. The portrait of a lady. Mrs. Dalloway.…”

Table of Contents: “…Experimenter -- The heady wine of Rome: Roderick Hudson -- Walls of separation: The American -- Vistas opening and closing: The portrait of a lady -- Lost between two worlds: The Princess Casamassima -- For love or money: The wings of the dove -- Through the picture frame: The ambassadors. rc.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Shakespeare's comedy of love and honor -- The inverted abstractions of restoration comedy -- A note on Sheridan -- The adjudication of Fielding's comedy -- Jane Austen -- The Portrait of a Lady: Henry James and the avoidance of comedy -- George Bernard Shaw: from anti-romance to pure fantasy.…”

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- The way of all flesh / Samuel Butler -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the early years -- Watch and ward: a parable of love and art -- Roderick Hudson: art and moral encounter in Rome -- The American: Innocence abroad -- The Europeans: the comedy of cultures -- Confidence and Washington Square: intelligence deceived/ a parable of the heart -- The portrait of a Lady: the caging of the beautiful striver -- The Bostonians: James among the reformers.…”

Table of Contents: “…The young man and the early tales -- Unpublished translations and the first six tales, 1860-67 -- The crop of 1868 -- First culmination, 1869 -- Adventures to Europe and return, 1869-72 -- Renewal in Europe, 1872-74 -- American interruption, 1874-76 -- Fame, 1877-79 -- End of a phase -- Towards The portrait of a lady.…”

Table of Contents: “…The critical prefaces of Henry James (1934) -- The Sacred Fount (1942) -- In the country of the blue (1943) -- Henry James (1948) -- The loose and baggy monsters of Henry James (1951) -- The Golden Bowl (Grove Press) (1952) -- Introductions to the Laurel Henry James Series (1958-1964): The Wings of the Dove ; The American ; Washington Square and The Europeans ; The Portrait of a Lady ; The Tragic Muse ; The Ambassadors ; The Golden Bowl.…”

Table of Contents: “…Kieślowski's lost daughter : Three colours: Blue -- The female adjuster : Arsinée Khanjian and the films of Atom Egoyan -- New Jersey childhood : Happiness -- Uncanny families : Olivier, Olivier -- Mater dolorosa : All about my mother -- Isabel's child : The portrait of a lady -- Jude : mortuary photography and heritage cinema -- Still time : Ratcatcher -- Dogme ghosts -- Moving on : The son's room -- Reflections.…”

Table of Contents: “…Watch and ward ; Roderick Hudson ; The American ; The Europeans ; Confidence ; The Portrait of a lady -- The Gallic issue. The Bostonians ; The Princess Casamassima ; The Reverberator ; The Tragic muse -- The Augean stable. …”

Table of Contents: “…Dickens and the world of childhood -- Middlemarch -- George Meredith -- The personality of Henry James ; The portrait of a lady ; The sacred fount -- The moment of silence -- Ladies whose bright pens -- The patient -- The significance of The witch of Edmonton -- Image and symbol -- The innocent heart -- The legacy of Germany in music and literature -- A poet's evasions -- Stefan George -- The soldier -- An elegiac novel -- Stendhal and Beyle -- Zola's La Debacle -- Andre Malraux and the novel of action -- The true realism: Francois Mauriac -- The personality of Eugene Delacroix.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Portraits of a lady -- The education of Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer -- A career begins -- A new field of study: landscape gardening -- Historical sketches on the art of gardening -- Traces in garden and forest -- A turning point--1893 -- While garden and forest lived -- Changes -- The aesthetics of life -- Appendix A: Garden and forest editorials and unsigned articles written by M. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Southworth -- The riddle of the sphinx: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Story of Avis -- Louis May Alcott's women artists: "Proving Avis in the wrong" -- Kate Chopin's awakening of female artistry -- Edith Wharton's portrait of a lady in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Authenticating the African-American female artist: Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun.…”

Table of Contents: “…"A typically English brew" : Victorian histories of tea and representations of English national identity -- Mediating class distinctions : the middle-class Englishness of drinking tea -- "Tea first hand" : gender and middle-class domesticity at the tea table -- Class, connection, and communitas : Wuthering Heights, North and South, and Alice's adventures in wonderland -- Gender, sexuality, and the tea table : David Copperfield, Middlemarch, and Orley Farm -- Tea drinking, nostalgia, and domestic entrapment : Hester, The portrait of a lady, and Jude the obscure.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Earliest Memories: Along the Hudson -- Temporary Quarters in Union Square -- Father's Assault on Paris -- The Family Retreats to New England -- Henry Becomes An American -- Arriving at Manhood in the War Years -- Henry Directs a Scene -- Forming an Image of Greatness -- Feeling Toward the Light -- Restoring His Spirits in England -- The Lessons of Italy -- Englandm, Again: The Anchor Chain is Broken -- Returning to the Hudson, As A Vistor from Abroad -- Henry Opens the Doors of Europe for Alice -- Settling in Italy -- The Ambassador From Lawton's Valley -- A Dutiful Experiene: A Year in Manhatttan -- Henry's Assault on Paris -- The Assault is Repulsed -- London -- Henry James Becomes a Cosmopolite -- The Portrait of a Lady -- Venice -- Henry Jame's First Published Work: "Miss Maggie Mitchell in 'Fanchon the Cricket'"…”

Table of Contents: “…The Civil War and Harvard's tented field -- Literary influences : all the breezes of the west -- The Hawthorne aspect -- Transatlantic trials -- A certain form : Watch and ward -- Experiment and decision : the attempt to be an American artist -- Comic pastoral : The Europeans -- American episodes and The portrait of a lady -- Points of view -- Evasive Boston and threadbare internationalism -- A very American tale : The Bostonians -- English years and American letters -- The restless analyst of the American scene -- Undiscovered America -- In the finer grain -- The fresh start and the broken link : The ivory tower -- The obstinate finality.…”

Table of Contents: “…-- A traveller -- Two civilizations -- A reviewer again -- Roderick Hudson -- The background, 1875-1881 -- A question of temperament -- The American : romance or truth -- The parting of the ways -- America and Europe -- The practitioner -- The Portrait of a Lady.…”

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence: Women in Love -- The Game of art -- Henry James: The Portrait of a lady -- James Joyce: A Portrait of the artist as a young man -- Virginia Woolf: To the lighthouse.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: authorship, creativity, and personal cinema -- Origins of a problematic: the Campion family -- The "tragic underbelly" of the family: fantasies of transgression in the early films -- Living in the shadow of the family tree: Sweetie -- "How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that": authorship as creative adaptation in An angel at my table -- Traumas of separation and the encounter with the phallic other: The piano -- The misfortunes of an heiress: The portrait of a lady -- Exacting revenge on "cunt men": Holy smoke as sexual fantasy -- "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing daddy in the cut -- Lighting a lamp: loss, art, and transcendence in The water diary and Bright star -- Conclusion: theorizing the personal component of authorship.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Apprenticeship in America: watch and ward, the first tales, Washington square, The jolly corner -- The passionate pilgrim: The sense of the past -- 'Everyone was a little someone else': Roderick Hudson, Confidence, tales of the split personality -- 'The international cerberus': The American, The Europeans, tales of trans-Atlantic discovery -- 'Organizing an ado': the portrait of a lady -- 'Slashing out in the bewilderment: The public life and the private life; The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The Reverberator -- 'Something about art': The tragic muse, tales of the artistic life -- Marriage and society (i): The spoils of Poynton, What Maisie knew, The awkward age, The sacred fount, The outcry -- Marriage and society (ii): Tales of the marriage market -- The wings of the dove (with a note on The other house) -- The ambassadors -- The golden bowl -- Tales of the uncanny -- Unfinished novels: The sense of the past, The ivory tower -- Henry James, man and legend.…”

Table of Contents: “…Alfred Prufrock -- Portrait of a lady -- Preludes -- Rhapsody on a windy night -- Morning at the window -- The Boston Evening Transcript -- Aunt Helen -- Cousin Nancy -- Mr. …”

Table of Contents: “…Women readers and reading in Victorian Britain and America -- Transatlantic representations of the woman reader: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), Henry James's The portrait of a lady (1881), Louisa May Alcott's Little women (1868, 1869), and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) -- Prophetic reading: Maggie Tulliver of George Eliot's The mill on the Floss (1847) -- Romance consumers: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The doctor's wife (1864) -- The case for compatibility: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872), and Mona Caird's The daughters of Danaus (1894) -- An illustrative gallery of Victorian British and American women readers: the illustrated fiction of Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Anthony Trollope -- The book as portal: depictions of the mind traveler in Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures under ground (1864) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wall-paper" (1892) -- "What is the use of a book?" …”

Table of Contents: “…Storyteller at the crossroads -- The silent trees -- Miss Penny -- The help -- Portrait of a lady -- The figure in the fog -- Pit and pockets -- Master of the house -- The room at the top of the stairs -- Footsteps -- Chamber pots -- The stationery box -- A visit from Fig and Stubbs -- Catch as catch can -- The other thing -- The garden in the woods -- The night man -- A rude awakening -- Roots -- Behind the door -- pt. 2. …”

Table of Contents: “…Storyteller at the crossroads -- The silent trees -- Miss Penny -- The help -- Portrait of a lady -- The figure in the fog -- Pit and pockets -- Master of the house -- The room at the top of the stairs -- Footsteps -- Chamber pots -- The stationery box -- A visit from Fig and Stubbs -- Catch as catch can -- The other thing -- The garden in the woods -- The night man -- A rude awakening -- Roots -- Behind the door -- pt. 2. …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- Death of a salesman (Arthur Miller) / Dominic Oliver -- "Howl" (Allen Ginsberg) / Sharon Bryan - - Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) / Lydia Rainford -- Long day's journey into night (Eugene O'Neill) / Jason Gray -- Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) / Ted Sutton -- My Antonia (Willa Cather) / Clare Morgan -- My bondage and my freedom (Frederick Douglass) / Mark Richardson -- On the road (Jack Kerouac) / Stephen F. Soitos -- The portrait of a lady (Henry James) / Jonathan Freedman -- Rabbit, run (John Updike) / Patricia B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Reid-Pharr -- The autochoreography of an ex-snow queen: dance, desire, and the Black masculine in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms / Maurice Wallace -- Lip-reading: Woolf's secret encounters / Stephen Barber -- The female world of exorcism and displacement (or, relations between women in Henry James's nineteenth-century The portrait of a lady) / Melissa Solomon -- Strange brothers / Jonathan Goldberg.…”

Table of Contents: “…Alfred Prufrock -- Portrait of a lady -- Preludes -- Rhapsody on a windy night -- Morning at the window -- The "Boston Evening Transcript" -- Aunt Helen -- Cousin Nancy -- Mr. …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- September 11, 2001 -- Considering books -- Introductions -- To the everyman's library edition of The Mabinogion -- To the Blithedale romance/ Nathaniel Hawthorne -- To Walden/ Henry David Thoreau -- To the portrait of a lady/ Henry James -- To the diary of Adam and Eve and other Adamic stories/ MarkTwain -- To seven men/ Max Beerbohm -- To the rich boy/ F. …”

Table of Contents: “…Confidence and uncertainty in The Portrait of a Lady -- 3. Lines of expansion -- 4. Four contemporaries and closing of the west -- 5. …”

Table of Contents: “…Chicago ; Gone ; Cool tombs ; Grass ; Gargoyle ; They all want to play Hamlet ; Soup ; Aprons of silence ; Four preludes on playthings of the wind ; from The people, Yes / Carl Sandburg -- General William Booth enters into heaven ; The eagle that is forgotten ; The Congo ; Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight ; The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay -- Peter Quince at the Clavier ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; Sunday morning ; A high-toned old Christian woman ; The emperor of ice-cream ; Bantams in pine-woods ; Anecdote of the jar ; Dance of the macabre mice ; The idea of order at Key West ; Dry loaf ; The sense of the sleight-of-hand man ; from Notes toward a supreme fiction ; from Esthétique du mal ; So-and-so reclining on her couch ; Men made out of words ; A primitive like an orb ; The river of rivers in Connecticut ; The Irish cliffs of Moher ; To an old philosopher in Rome / Wallace Stevens -- Tract ; Danse Russe ; Queen-Ann's-Lace ; The widow's lament in springtime ; Spring and all ; The red wheelbarrow ; To Elsie ; At the ball game ; To Mark Anthony in heaven ; Portrait of a lady ; This is just to say ; The yachts ; The Catholic bells ; These ; The dance ; Burning the Christmas greens ; To Ford Madox Ford in heaven ; The rose ; The semblables ; from Paterson: Book I ; Ol' Bunk's Band ; Lear ; A unison ; The horse show ; Coda ; At Kenneth Burke's place / William Carlos Williams --…”