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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Elizabeth Brogden This article argues that the protagonist of Henry James's first work of psychological realism, The Portrait of a Lady (1881), has an oblique relationship to its plot. In this novel, James constructs Isabel's subjectivity (her feeling, apperception, and psychological depth...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 208–227.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Caroline Wilkinson Abstract This article radically reframes Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady in relation to the Underground Railroad, the transatlantic slave trade, US slavery, and racial housing segregation. Focusing on the house in Albany, New York, where Isabel Archer stays in the 1850s...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 228–255.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the most egregious male chauvinist pig in nineteenth-century American literature. Certainly his marriage to Isabel Archer does not turn out well. But while the question of Isabel's conscious and unconscious motivations in accepting Osmond's suit continues to be enthusiastically debated—“like Sisyphus's...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
... anachronistic, interminable, and word-coining prose, remains to be
theorized in relation to the first. That this tongue-bewildering style reflects the
proliferation of ambiguous noises in the novel—especially at moments of inces-
tuous tension between Pierre and his alleged sister, Isabel—suggests that Mel...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 338–342.
Published: 01 August 2019
...” in it: focalizing one ordinary person's experience, singling out such a “slight ‘personality’” as his Isabel Archer from millions and endowing her with “the high attributes of a Subject” ( James xii–xiii ). Why this thin piece of unremarkable human material and not so many others? Truly, why anyone...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 452–464.
Published: 01 November 2017
... are registered, often in highly symbolic and rhetorical ways that recall literary style, and how such individual changes cannot be disarticulated from their rapid appropriations by others. Critical, transformative moments in the novel often occur in sustained moments of private contemplation. Isabel Archer's...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 354–356.
Published: 01 August 2010
... with the inordinate
role played by visuality in James’s fiction. As Leo Bersani was the first to point out, knowl-
edge in James’s fiction typically takes visible form, sometimes even the same form: Isabel
Archer realizing that her marriage has always been a sham after seeing her husband Gil-
bert Osmond seated...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 451–459.
Published: 01 November 2009
... became deadly white in the moon-
light” (31); “In the drawing room was Francis Levison, and [Isabel’s] heart beat
wildly” (121); “what was it that caused every nerve in [Isabel’s] frame to vibrate,
every pulse to quicken?” (205); and “[Isabel’s] pulses were beating wildly. A pow-
erful conviction...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 207–226.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of gestation during which,
since he cannot produce a child with Isabel Archer, he may produce a surrogate
by assigning his inheritance to her. Isabel is then free to choose a future for her-
self, unencumbered by financial concerns, a freedom she violates by marrying
the Machiavellian Gilbert Osmond...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 196–211.
Published: 01 August 2000
...
Aurora Floyd, or even Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne in which the guilty woman
is also the sympathetic heroine. Even so, I would argue that Aurora and Lady
Isabel Vane, though transgressive and even, in Lady Isabel's case, masochistic, do
not provide the same active, self-motivated models...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 316–318.
Published: 01 November 2002
..., Margaret
Walker, Paule Marshall, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Lucille
Clifton, Sherley Anne Williams, Gloria Naylor, Julie Dash, Ntozake Shange, Smone
Schwartz-Bart, Michelle Cliff, Jean Rhys, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Bharati
Mukherjee, and Jamaica Kincaid. I...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 335–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Christianity and repudiation of African culture in Moeti oa Bochabela , a quest narrative that borrows its narrative template from The Pilgrim's Progress —which, as Isabel Hofmeyr shows in The Portable Bunyan , proved in its malleability to be indispensable to Christian missionary activity on the continent...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 284–300.
Published: 01 August 2014
.... Tully James . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1989 . 29 – 68 . Stengers Isabelle . “Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box?” Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life . Ed. Braun Bruce Whatmore Sarah J. . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 November 2020
... ( 233–34 ). Charlotte's speech has specific details in common with Caspar Goodwood's quarrel with Isabel in The Portrait of a Lady (1881). When Goodwood comes to see Isabel after hearing of her engagement to another man, she tells him that his timing is off, that she would have appreciated a visit...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 464–468.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., it is a shocking statement: conceptually counterintuitive, contrary to
lived experience, and gainsaid too by prominent characters even in Burrows’s own authors
(one thinks, for example, of all that Ralph Touchett reads in the singularity of Isabel
Archer’s face at the very start of The Portrait of a Lady...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... algorithmically precise and tackling yet larger data sets has appeared in the intervening decade, including not only Mark Algee-Hewitt's study of character networks on the early modern stage, but also Sam Alexander's essay on nineteenth-century novels, and Adam Grener and Isabel Parker's explorations...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 444–460.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Peter . Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2013 . Briggs Joanna . “ She Wore Isabel Marant .” London Review of Books 2 Aug. 2018 < https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n15/joanna-biggs/she-wore-isabel-marant...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 492–496.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the plots, characters, themes, and claims of literary texts. I am
thinking here, for example, of Stephanie Newell’s fine studies of nascently transnational
literary readers and markets in colonial Ghana, Isabel Hofmeyr’s transnational African his-
tory of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, or innovative...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 427–443.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., such as the tract, that Leah Price has described in Victorian Britain. In both cases the novel gains distinction by being “parochialized,” as Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr put it, in relation to other forms ( 12 ). As Mae continues her integration into the Circle she seems to lose her ability to read...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 401–423.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and hence to the exigencies of the plot. The characters themselves,
including Ralph, discuss his death as something contingent on his willingness to
continue living, or simply on the strength of his will as such, which dwindles as
he sees his beautiful cousin Isabel Archer, on whom he has bet much...
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