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Portrait of an Act: Aesthetics and Ethics in The Portrait of a Lady
- The Henry James Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2004
- pp. 67-86
- 10.1353/hjr.2004.0007
- Article
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Abstract
Taking issue with the dominant critical tendency to view The Portrait of a Lady through the aesthetic lens of a novel of education, the author argues that Isabel's decision to return to Osmond must be recognized for an explicitly ethical act in a Lacanian sense, whose ultimate function is to guarantee the James heroine's transcendental freedom.
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