SOURCE: "Sexual Realism in 'The Portrait of a Lady': The Divided Sexuality of Isabel Archer," in Studies in the Novel, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Spring, 1990, pp. 19-25.
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.
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