Schools of sympathy : gender and identification through the novel / 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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Visions of the Emerald City : modernity, tradition, and the formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico / by Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark

Table of Contents: “…La vallistocracia : the formation of Oaxaca's ruling class -- The legible city : constructed, symbolic, and disciplined spaces -- "A new political religious order" : church, state, and workers -- "A necessary evil" : regulating public space and public women -- Portraits of a lady : visions of modernity -- Conclusions : the consquences of modernity.…”
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Bellman, Samuel Irving, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Partial Portraits of a Lady -- A Dark Lunar Idyll: South Moon Under -- Exile and Accommodation: Golden Apples -- "Give My Heart Ease, Love; Give My Heart Ease": The Yearling -- Inspiration's Garland: When the Whippoorwill -- Land of Heart's Desire: Cross Creek -- An Alien's Progress, Ad Astra Per Aspera: The Sojourner -- A Seeming Conclusion.…”

The visual arts, pictorialism, and the novel : James, Lawrence, and Woolf / by Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- Perception, impression, and knowledge in The portrait of a lady, The ambassadors, and The golden bowl -- Encoding the taboo in Women in love.…”
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Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer : a landscape critic in the gilded age / 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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Hollywood's (m)other aperture : pre-Oedipal mothers, FEMININITY, and the movies / by Bihlmeyer, Jaime

Table of Contents: “…The (Un)Speakable Femininity In Mainstream Movies: Jane Campions The Piano -- Intertextuality And The Enunciation Of Femininity: Bluebeard In Jane Campion's The Piano -- Hermaphrodite: Maternal Masochism In Jane Campions The Portrait Of A Lady, Holy Smoke And In The Cut-- Part 2: The Phallic (m)Other And The Virgin Queen. …”

The descent of love : Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871-1926 / by Bender, Bert

Table of Contents: “…The descent of man and selection in relation to sex: the Darwinian unknown in American literary history -- Sexual selection -- The descent of love -- Recurrent problems, themes, and scenes in the courtship novels, 1871-1926 -- Evolutionary anthropology and sexual selection in William Dean Howells's Their wedding journey -- Courting design: chance, choice, and sexual difference in Howells's courtship novels of the 1870s -- Darwinian problems in a modern instance: heredity, primitive marriage, and male sexual aggression -- Henry James and The descent of man: "The loves of the quadrupeds" in "The madonna of the future" and Roderick Hudson -- Psychological Darwinism in The portrait of a lady -- Darwin and "The natural history of doctresses": the sex war between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James -- Kate Chopin's quarrel with Darwin before the awakening -- The teeth of desire: the awakening and the descent of man.…”
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Testimony on trial : Conrad, James, and the contest for modernism / by Artese, Brian

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Images of the woman reader in Victorian British and American fiction / by Golden, Catherine

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?" …”
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Front page girls : women journalists in American culture and fiction, 1880-1930 / by Lutes, Jean Marie, 1967-

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Testimony on trial : Conrad, James, and the contest of modernism / by Artese, Brian

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Front-Page Girls : Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930 / by Lutes, Jean Marie

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Christine de Pizan and the moral defence of women : reading beyond gender / by Brown-Grant, Rosalind

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The narratological analysis of lyric poetry : studies in English poetry from the 16th to the 20th century / by Hühn, Peter, 1939-

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