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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Isabel Archer"”.
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Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?
<p> <p>This thesis argues that Isabel Archer of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady and Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth were nineteenth-century characters struggling to assert their social and sexual independence in a male dominated society. Although Isabel inherits a …
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Trophies or Treasures: The Burden of Choice for Mothers, Wives, and Daughters in <em>Washington Square</em>, <em>The Portrait of a Lady</em>, and <em>The Bostonians</em>.
… Square</u>, in the tragic heroism of Isabel Archer in <u>The Portrait of a Lady</u>, and even in the sacrificial loss of Verena Tarrant for Olive Chancellor in <u>The Bostonians</u>.</p>
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer learns the truth about her marriage: "She saw, in the crude light of that revelation... the dry staring fact that she had been an applied handled hung-up tool, as senseless and convenient as mere shaped wood and iron." The …
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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Fin de Siècle Jamesian Narratives
… of four Jamesian characters — specifically Isabel Archer (The Portrait of a Lady), Fleda Vetch (The Spoils of Poynton), and Milly Theale and Kate Croy (The Wings of the Dove), respectively — meaningfully reflect an acceleration of tensions, complications, and obstacles that underlie the …