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.…”

Love and good reasons : postliberal approaches to Christian ethics and literature / by Oehlschlaeger, Fritz

Table of Contents: “…Literary criticism and Christian ethics in service to one another -- Toward a Christian ethics of reading, or, why we cannot be done with Bartleby -- The "best blessing of existence": "conscious worth" in Emma -- Honor, faithfulness, and community in Anthony Trollope's The warden and He knew he was right -- The "very temple of authorised love": Henry James and The portrait of a lady -- A light that has been there from the beginning: Stephen Crane and the Gospel of John -- Afterword: postliberal Christian scholarship: an engagement with Rorty and Stout.…”

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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A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England / by Fromer, Julie E., 1970-

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.…”