A Study Guide for Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady"
()
About this ebook
Read more from Gale
A Study Guide for James Clavell's "Shogun" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Macbeth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for George Orwell's Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: ALBERT BANDURA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Bakery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: JEAN PIAGET Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Furniture Businesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Lois Lowry's The Giver Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for "Postmodernism" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horsemen" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide (New Edition) for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide (New Edition) for William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Study Guide for Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady"
Related ebooks
A Study Guide for Thomas Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Henry James's "Daisy Miller" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for John Steinbeck's East of Eden Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Study Guide for George Eliot's Middlemarch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "The Grass Is Singing" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Study Guide for Muriel Spark's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones" Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ernest Hemingway's "Snows of Kilimanjaro" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ian McEwan's Atonement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for E.M. Forster's A Passage to India Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Jane Austen's Emma Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Sylvia Plath's "Blackberrying" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verity: by Colleen Hoover | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Circe: by Madeline Miller | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Study Guide for Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady"
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Study Guide for Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady" - Gale
1
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
1881
Introduction
Henry James was an established author when The Portrait of a Lady was published. The novel was first published serially in 1880 and 1881, appearing in Macmillan's Magazine in England and in Atlantic in the United States. The first book edition was published in 1881.
The Portrait of a Lady was widely, and mostly favorably, reviewed. Some reviewers recognized it immediately as James's most important novel thus far, and a few called it a masterpiece. Both of these opinions have been affirmed as time has passed. Many scholars consider The Portrait of a Lady one of the greatest novels in modern literature. Its heroine, Isabel Archer, is widely considered one of James's most powerful characters.
The Portrait of a Lady is, above all, Isabel's story. Following the technique of Russian author Ivan Turgenev, James makes Isabel the axis around which the story revolves. All the story's events, and all the other characters, exist only to serve the purpose of revealing Isabel to the reader.
Author Biography
Henry James was born in New York City on April 15, 1843. His father, also named Henry, was a minister who had inherited wealth. His mother, Mary Robertson Walsh James, was devoted to her husband and five children. Henry was their second son. The first, William, became a Harvard professor and a philosopher whose best-known books, especially Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), are still read today. The younger children were Garth, Robertson, and Alice.
James's father took the family on an extended trip to Europe the year Henry was born. Henry's childhood was spent traveling between a family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Europe, where the James's spent time in England, France, and Switzerland. In Cambridge and nearby Boston, young Henry came to know the American intellectual and literary stars of the time, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Dean Howells. He was educated by private tutors at home and abroad until he enrolled at Harvard, where he studied only briefly. Howells, an influential magazine editor, helped James launch his literary career as a critic and writer for magazines including the Nation and the Atlantic.
In 1876, at the age of thirty-three, James moved permanently to England; he eventually became a British citizen. The meeting of American and European cultures is the predominant theme