The portrait of a lady / Henry James. by James, Henry

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The portrait of a lady / Henry James. by James, Henry, 1843-1916

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The portrait of a lady / Henry James. by James, Henry, 1843-1916

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu = Portrait of a lady on fire /...

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Novels, 1881-1886 / Henry James ; William T. Stafford, editor. by James, Henry, 1843-1916

Table of Contents: “…Washington Square -- The Portrait of a lady -- The Bostonians.…”
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Henry James and the suspense of masculinity / Leland S. Person. by Person, Leland S.

Table of Contents: “…3 Sheathing The Sword Of Gentle Manhood In The Portrait Of A Lady --…”
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Cohesion in literary texts : a study of some grammatical and lexical features of English discourse / Waldemar Gutwinski. by Gutwinski, Waldemar

Table of Contents: “…APPENDIX I TEXT OF THE FOURTH PARAGRAPH IN CHAPTER XLII OF JAMES' THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY --…”
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The best American magazine writing 2013 / compiled by the American Society of Magazine Editors ; introduction by James Bennet.

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Handbook of the American novel of the nineteenth century / edited by Christine Gerhardt.

Table of Contents: “…Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) /…”
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Echoes of Emerson Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather / Diana Hope Polley. by Polley, Diana Hope, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Henry James's The portrait of a lady -- Edith Wharton's The house of Mirth -- Willa Cather's My Antonia -- Epilogue.…”
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Acting beautifully : Henry James and the ethical aesthetic / Sigi Jottkandt. by Jottkandt, Sigi, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Portrait of an act: representation and ethics in The Portrait of a Lady -- "A poor girl with her rent to pay": The Wings of the Dove -- Lighting a candle to infinity: "The Altar of the Dead."…”
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Schools of sympathy : gender and identification through the novel / Nancy Roberts. by Roberts, Nancy, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Schools of sympathy -- Clarissa: novel as trial -- The Scarlet Letter and "The spectacle of the scaffold" -- Changing places: gender and identity in The Portrait of a Lady -- "A thousand pities": the reader and Tess of the d'Urbervilles" -- "Back talk": the work of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.…”
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The Ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th Century Society by Elisabetta Strickland. by Strickland, E. (Elisabetta), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…A peculiar childhood -- The two marriages -- New horizons in Paris -- The Grand Tour to Italy -- The nomadic life -- Portrait of a lady -- Taking part in the unification of Italy -- The death of William Somerville -- Garibaldi, the hero she never met -- Life in Naples -- A peaceful end -- Conclusions.…”
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Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels The Art of Concealment / by Wibke Schniedermann. by Schniedermann, Wibke

Table of Contents: “…The Presence of Absence in The Portrait of a Lady -- 4. The Grip of Inheritance: Capital Resources in The Wings of the Dove -- 5. …”
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Queer Impressions : Henry James' Art of Fiction. by Pigeon, Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Emerson's Blind Spot: Romantic Effects in The Portrait of a Lady; Chapter Two Henry James's ""Art of Fiction"": A Queer Blend of Aestheticism, Naturalism and Impressionism; Chapter Three The Legacy of the ""Unspeakable"" Father in The Wings of the Dove; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.…”
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Apprenticeships : the Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana / by Thomas L. Jeffers. by Jeffers, Thomas L., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Goethe's Classical Bildungsroman: Mastering the Art of Living -- The Idea of Bildung and the Bildungsroman -- David Copperfield's Self-Cultivation -- From Pink to Yellow: Growing Up Female in What Maisie Knew and The Portrait of a Lady -- Forster's The Longest Journey and "the code of modern morals" -- Lawrence's Sons and Lovers: "We children were the in-betweens" -- The Philosophical Apprenticeship of Oliver Alden -- Epilogue.…”
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Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / Tessa Hadley. by Hadley, Tessa

Table of Contents: “…: reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer : a landscape critic in the gilded age / Judith K. Major. by Major, Judith K.

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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Literature As Conduct : Speech Acts in Henry James. by Miller, J.Hillis

Table of Contents: “…s Decisions in The Portrait of a Lady""; ""Chapter 3: Unworked and Unavowable: Community in The Awkward Age""; ""Chapter 4: Lying against Death: The Wings of the Dove""; ""Chapter 5: ""Conscious Perjury"": Declarations of Ignorance in The Golden Bowl""; ""Chapter 6: The ""Quasi-Turn-of-Screw Effect, "" or How to Raise a Ghost with Words: The Sense of the Past""; ""Notes""…”
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Jane Campion : authorship and personal cinema / Alistair Fox. by Fox, Alistair

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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