| Description |
87 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Bloom's notes |
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Bloom's notes.
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| Contents |
Critical views -- Character delineation in the novel / John Hay ; Henry James's narrative method / Joseph Warren Beach ; Architectural imagery in the novel / Graham Greene ; Madame Merle, the Countess Gemini, and Pansy / F. R. Leavis ; James's Americans abroad / Dorothy Van Ghent ; Narration and diction in the novel / Richard Poirier ; Some possible models for Isabel Archer from James's life / Leon Edel ; Isabel Archer's ancestors in James's fiction / Walter F. Wright ; Isabel's illusion of freedom / J.I.M. Stewart ; Role of material wealth in the novel / Elisabeth Luther Carey ; Role of the artist in the novel / Laurence Bedwell Holland ; Recurrent image of the bolted door in the novel / John Rodenbeck ; Isabel Archer's awakening faith / Sister Lucy Schneider ; James's changes to the first drafts of the novel / Nina Baym ; World of appearances in the novel / Elizabeth Allen ; Madame Merle and Osmond / Tony Tanner ; James as a critic of his own work / Deborah Esch ; Association of transcience with mortality in the novel / William Veeder ; Isabel as a typical American / Lyall H. Powers ; Isabel's past and future / Jonathan Warren ; Ralph Touchett's disability and its relation to sexual pleasure / Kelly Cannon. |
| Note |
"A contemporary literary views book." |
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"Works by Henry James": p. 78-80. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-84) and index. |
| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916. Portrait of a lady.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| Added Title |
Portrait of a lady |
| ISBN |
0791045145 hardcover |
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0791045676 paperback |
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