Literature as conduct : speech acts in Henry James / by Miller, J. Hillis 1928-

Table of Contents: “…History, narrative, responsibility: "The Aspern papers" -- The story of a kiss: Isabel's decisions in The portrait of a lady -- Unworked and unavowable: community in The awkward age -- Lying against death in The wings of the dove -- "Conscious perjury": declarations of ignorance in The golden bowl -- The "quasi-turn-of-screw effect," or how to raise a ghost with words: the sense of the past.…”

The prefaces of Henry James : framing the modern reader / by Pearson, John H., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…-- The politics of the preface -- Tales of origin and James's aesthetic memory -- Authorial performance and subversions of reading : The wings of the dove and What Maisie knew -- Meaning, context, intertext : a preface to ten tales -- Consciousness and the construction of identity : reading The portrait of a lady through the preface.…”

Lady in the labyrinth : Milton's Comus as initiation / by Shullenberger, William

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: Milton's Portrait of a Lady; ''Growing a Girl'': The Masque of Passage; Singing Master of the Soul: The Attendant Spirit; Tragedy in Translation; Double Trouble: Comus and His Bloodlines; Girl Power: The Profession of Virginity; Milton's Lady and Lady Milton: Chastity, Gender, and Prophecy; Girl, Interrupted and the Changing Woman; Homecoming Queen; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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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.…”

Becoming a woman in the age of letters / by Goodman, Dena, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Picturing the subject : portrait of a lady as letter writer -- Designing an education for young ladies -- Writing as discipline : instruction in penmanship and orthography -- Epistolary education : learning to be natural -- Supplying the female letter writer -- The writing desk : furniture of the modern self -- Coming of age : young ladies, privacy, and epistolary practice -- Epistolary reasoning : writing about marriage -- Marriage, motherhood, and the letter-writing woman.…”

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.…”

Jane Campion : authorship and personal cinema / 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.…”

The Disruption of the Feminine in Henry James / by Walton, Priscilla L.

Table of Contents: “…Ideology and Subjectivity in The Portrait of a Lady -- 3. Manifestations of the Feminine Other in a Selection of James's Short Stories -- 4. …”
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The complete letters of Henry James, 1880-1883 / by James, Henry, 1843-1916

Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / 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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Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / 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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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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Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / 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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The disruption of the feminine in Henry James / by Walton, Priscilla L.

Table of Contents: “…Ideology and Subjectivity in The Portrait of a Lady -- 3. Manifestations of the Feminine Other in a Selection of James's Short Stories -- 4. …”
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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.…”

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. …”

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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Winnie Davis : daughter of the lost cause / by Lee, Heath Hardage

Table of Contents: “…A tragic fall -- My name is a heritage of woe -- Escape, capture, and Fort Monroe -- A fatal romance -- Scandal and sickness -- Boarding school blues and the Dorsey dilemma -- Yellow fever -- Portrait of a lady -- Daughter of the Confederacy -- Life in a fishbowl -- I will never consent! …”
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The great succession : Henry James and the legacy of Hawthorne / by Long, Robert Emmet

Table of Contents: “…Washington Square: Romance Shadows in the Drawing Room -- 7. The Portrait of a Lady: The Great Dramatic Chiaroscuro -- 8. …”
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