Portrait of A Novel by MICHAEL GORRA Page A

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       literary history of, 34
       local color and regionalism in, 129, 178, 246
       novel of manners and, 26
        The Portrait of a Lady as, xvii
       realist, 25–26
       romances in, 36, 69
       sentimental, 25
       William Dean Howells on, 26
    analytical method of characterization, 242–43
    Andersen, Hendrik, xxii, 88, 297–98, 299, 304, 328
    Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 113, 271, 303, 332
    Anne, Queen of England, 99
    Antietam, Battle of, 19
    Archer, Isabel (char.), xv, xvii, 8, 81, 85–86, 103, 121, 131, 149, 151, 171–72, 173, 196, 198, 207, 214, 243, 244, 310–17, 321
       American newness of, 270
       appearance of, 7
       character of, 6–11, 66–67, 75, 105–6, 115, 116–17, 242
       clothes conversation of, 113–15, 163
       as desiring to depart from past, 114
       elements of HJ in, 50, 270
       Europe’s meaning to, 126, 223
       George Eliot’s influence on, 66
       Gilbert Osmond’s fascination for, 134–37, 155–59, 162–64, 276, 311, 328, 329
       Gilbert Osmond’s restrictions on, 162–64, 225, 230–31, 232–33, 234, 238, 269, 273, 274–75, 313, 325, 326
       independence of, 4, 6, 51–54, 71, 75–76, 158, 161, 163, 223, 252, 315, 329–30
       inner life of, 9, 175, 311, 313, 334
       as a “lady,” 10–11, 224
       limits on freedom of, xviii–xix, 69, 76, 111–12, 223–24, 238, 270–73, 277–79, 283, 295, 326–27
       marriage of, 136, 159–61, 164, 166, 214, 221, 222–38, 271–77, 303–4
       marriage plot resisted by, xviii, 9, 69–76, 106–7, 109, 112, 113, 157, 160
       Minny Temple as original of, 27, 46–50
       power of knowledge for, 279
       Ralph Touchett’s bequest to, 110–11, 114, 125, 134, 137, 162, 225, 272–73, 279, 316–17, 327
       Ralph Touchett’s relationship with, 50–51, 54
       reactions of others to, 6–7
       reflections on married life by, 229–38
       return to Rome by, 327–34
       in Rome, 141–43, 149, 150, 174, 222, 225–26, 269–70, 271, 312, 325
       sadness of, 213, 269, 271, 324–25
       separation considered by, 273, 333
       sexual desire of, 234–36, 237–38, 327–30
       spontaneity and individuality of, 6, 67, 271
       on taste vs. wealth, 137
       travels of, 161
       as voice of American exceptionalism, 114–15
    Arno, 122, 126, 149
    Arnold, Matthew, 158, 210
    Arthur, Chester A., 259
    “Art of Fiction, The” (Besant), 246
    Aspects of the Novel (Forster), 248–49
    Asquith, H. H., 323
    Assommoir, L’ (Zola), 39, 200–201, 252
    Athenaeum, 79, 97–98
    Athenaeum, 220
    Athens, 180
    Atlanta Constitution, 220
    Atlantic Monthly, xiv, xix, 13, 23, 25, 37, 98, 129, 130, 199, 265, 305
       “Contributors’ Club” in, 210, 218, 250
       HJ serialized in, 24, 34, 43, 44, 71, 100, 101, 103, 104, 130, 166, 173, 208–13, 215, 217–21, 222, 284
        The Portrait of a Lady reviewed in, 241
    Austen, Jane, 5, 35, 57, 68, 72, 75, 192, 234
    Austria, 166
    autocracy, 315
    Avignon, 166
     
    Baden-Baden, 39
    Bad Nauheim, 320
    Baedeker, 147, 166
    Bakunin, Mikhail, 126
    Baldwin, William, 183
    Balzac, Honoré de, 35, 52, 58, 68, 98, 113, 192, 314–15
    Barberini, Colonel, 145
    Barings Bank, 49
    Bayreuth, 92, 93, 94
    Beerbohm, Max, 300
    Beethoven, Ludwig van, 111
    Belgium, 322, 323
    Bellosguardo, 122, 133, 135, 138, 226, 277
    Bennett, Arnold, 290
    Benson, A. C., xxii
    Berlin, 80
    Besant, Walter, 246
    Bien Public, La, 200–201
    bigamy, 195
    “Birthmark, The” (Hawthorne), 315
    Bismarck, Otto von, 33
    Blackmur, R. P., 318
    Blackwood’s, 194, 241–42, 244, 331
    Bleak House (Dickens), 68, 131, 215, 216, 218
    Boboli Gardens, 121
    Bologna, 126
    Boott, Elizabeth (Lizzie), 41, 123, 128, 131, 138, 148, 176, 180, 321
    Boott, Frank, 123, 128, 131, 138–39, 148, 176, 180, 182, 183, 321
    Bosanquet, Theodora, 88, 101, 310, 312, 321, 324
    Boston, Mass., xv, 18, 23, 37, 40, 93, 150, 209, 210, 240, 257, 258, 259, 260, 263, 265, 281,