New Essays on 'The Portrait of a Lady'

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series editor's preface; A note on the text; 1. Introduction: The Portrait of a Lady and 'felt life' Joel Porte; 2. The Portrait of a Lady and modern narrative Donatella Izzo; 3. The fatherless heroine and the filial son: deep background for The Portrait of a Lady Alfred Habegger; 4. The portrait of a lack William Veeder; 5. Frail vessels and vast designs: a psychoanalytic portrait of Isabel Archer Beth Sharon Ash; Selected bibliography.

Zusammenfassung

The Portrait of a Lady is arguably Henry James's most appealing and accessible novel. The introduction to this volume of specially written essays, first published in 1990, situates the novel in its cultural and historical context and discusses the important revisions which James later made to the text.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joel Porte
• Mitarbeit: Emory Elliot (Herausgeber), Joel Porte (Herausgeber), Porte Joel (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.01.1990
• EAN: 9780521347532
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34753-2
• Abmessung: 138 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 210 g
• Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises
• Serien: American Novel (Paperback); The American Novel
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form