The American author Henry James (1843-1916) was one of the major novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works deal largely with the impact of Europe and its society on Americans. Henry James, the son of a theologian and the brother of t...
The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $3 million (based on salt, tobacco, real estate, and pu...
The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $3 million (based on salt, tobacco, real estate, and pu...
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 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her...
It is Thanksgiving Day, 1860. Abraham Lincoln has been elected president and civil war threatens the nation. Out West, the Pony Express is 8 months old. In Boston, a 9-year-old girl begins a diary she will keep for the next 52 years. The...
WISHING ON THE MOON The Life and Times of Billie Holiday By Donald Clarke Viking. 468 pp. $24.95 THAT BILLIE HOLIDAY was one of the most significant and influential figures in American popular music should require no elaboration. Though admirers...
Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the...
Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the...
In the following essay, Hochenauer emphasizes Isabel Archer's sexually passionate and emotionally inhibited sides and the implications of this dual nature in Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady.
T.S Eliot's `Portrait of a Lady' focuses on a man who has a detached relationship with an older women. `Portrait of a lady' details the mans inaction, apathy and disconnection towards this lady who he has lost all former connections with. The man is depicted as a self-conscious, almost philosophical character who feels he must part from this lady, but does not dare acting so.
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