Annett Heibel: 1 book
The Power Play of Consciousness: The Representation of Power in Henry James’s Novel "The Portrait of a Lady"
Master Thesis Free University Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
At the height of American Realism, in 1880, Henry James portrays his heroine Isabel Archer as caught up in a power dynamic of friendship and marriage from which she emerges as the yielding, submitting, surrendering part. She unconsciously confers power to her friend Madame Merle and her husband Gilbert...
