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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.
- Henry James
- 1881
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- ‘This Land of Impossible Beauty’
- Metahistory
- ‘The Power to Be Finely Aware’
From James’s first elated encounter with Italy in 1869 to his last in 1907, he visited ‘this land of impossible beauty’, as one of his characters called it, on fourteen separate occasions.28 His various reflections upon Italian cities and regions were subsequently collected in Transatlantic Sketches (1875), Portraits of Places (1883), and Italian H...
Coextensive with travel writing’s changing representations of Italy was an immense flowering of interest in the meaning and value of the Italian Renaissance for Victorians specifically. As a result of increased government patronage of the arts, expanded access to Italian cities and artworks, the prolific production of studies of Renaissance art, th...
The breadth of James’s knowledge of Pater’s Studies, Pater’s other works, and the wider writings of British aestheticism has been well documented, but what is less widely recognised is how James transposes Pater’s ‘æsthetic criticism’ into the realist novel – James’s characters increasingly resemble Paterian critics in the evaluative intelligence t...
- Joel Diggory
- 2017
In "The Portrait of a Lady," Khushwant Singh masterfully intertwines these themes to create a rich tapestry of human experience, offering profound insights into the complexities of tradition, family, spirituality, and the passage of time in the context of Indian society.
Jul 5, 2020 · In “Portrait” Eliot divides the disparities of personality required for maintaining a dramatic tension— or at least makes those disparities more plausible—by creating two entirely distinct personages in the speaker and the lady.
The Portrait of a Lady is arguably Henry James's most appealing and accessible novel. The introduction to this volume of specially written essays, first published in 1990, situates the novel in its cultural and historical context: its treatment of a modern woman 'affronting' her destiny, its relation to the contemporary controversy over ...
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