New Essays on 'The Portrait of a Lady' (The American Novel) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052134753X ISBN 13: 9780521347532

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

The Portrait of a Lady is arguably Henry James' most appealing and accessible novel. The introduction to this volume of specially written essays situates the novel in its cultural and historical context and discusses the important revisions that James later made to the text. The essays that follow address the novel's place in the tradition of modern narrative, its relation to popular women's fiction on the question of marriage, the influence of Henry James' brother William, and the character of the heroine seen from a psychoanalytic point of view.

About this title

Book Description:

Essays consider the novel's place within the tradition of modern narrative, its relation to popular fiction on the marriage question, and the heroine's character seen from a psychoanalytical perspective.

About the Author:

Joel Porte is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing; Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time; and The Romance of America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James. He is editor, with Saundra Morris, of The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 052134753X
• ISBN 13: 9780521347532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178
• Editor: Porte Joel