The Lure of Italy

Stebbins, Theodore E.

doi:10.5040/9781474210362.ch-008

The Valois : Kings of France 1328–1589

DOI: 10.5040/9781474210362.ch-008

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The Lure of Italy

Theodore E. Stebbins¹

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Osmond's Complaint: Gilbert Osmond's Mother and the Cultural Context of James's The Portrait of a Lady

Lawrence¹

2005

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By referring to Gilbert Osmond's mother in The Portrait of a Lady as "the American Corinne," Henry James alludes not only to the eponymous heroine of Madame de Stael's high-Romantic novel but also to the well-known epithet of Margaret Fuller, thus foregrounding his novel in an antebellum transcendental America far removed from the novel's actual place and time of Gilded Age America and post-Risorgimento Italy. In likening Portrait's heroine Isabel Archer to Osmond's mother in her spirit of inquiry and individualism, James provides a motive for Osmond's inscrutable hatred of Isabel and ties Isabel to the antebellum intellectual and spiritual fervor of transcendentalism, thus adding an additional historical, aesthetic, and philosophical layer to his novel.

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Osmond's Complaint: Gilbert Osmond's Mother and the Cultural Context of James's The Portrait of a Lady

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2005

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An African Queen at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876

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2009

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Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1843–after 1909) was America's first professional sculptor of African and Native American descent. She staked a claim at the highest level of neoclassical art. This usually meant competing against men who vehemently opposed women competing in a “man's” profession. Lewis found the fortitude to take up the challenge and, along with several other women (all white), demonstrated the capacity to produce extraordinary marble sculptures. Lewis's burden was twofold. In addition to her gender, her race presented unique obstacles, especially to those who subscribed to the belief that those with a “drop of African blood” were rendered less intelligent and creatively inept. Her crowning achievement was The Death of Cleopatra (1876) that was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876 to great acclaim. This paper offers critical insights into the creation of that great work.

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Osmond's Complaint: Gilbert Osmond's Mother and the Cultural Context of James's The Portrait of a Lady

Osmond's Complaint: Gilbert Osmond's Mother and the Cultural Context of James's The Portrait of a Lady

An African Queen at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876

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