The essay examines Isabel Archer's set of confrontations with places or institutions (such as the bank, the museum, and the convent) which stand in the novel for some of the social values and constraints her Emersonian worldview rejects, and whose power James intends to emphasize.

Banks, museums, and convents: institutional encounters in The Portrait of a Lady

IZZO, Donatella
2016-01-01

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The essay examines Isabel Archer's set of confrontations with places or institutions (such as the bank, the museum, and the convent) which stand in the novel for some of the social values and constraints her Emersonian worldview rejects, and whose power James intends to emphasize.
2016
9781619258365
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