On James's The Portrait of a Lady

Blackwood, Sarah. "Isabel Archer's Body." The Henry James Review 31.3 (2010): 271-279.

Bollinger, Laura. "'Poor Isabel, who had never been able to understand Unitarianism!': Denominational Identity and Moral Character in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady." The Henry James Review 32.2 (2011): 160-177.

Fessenbecker, Patrick. “Freedom, Self-Obligation, and Selfhood in Henry James.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 66.1 (2011): 69-95.

Freedman, Jonathan. "Introduction: The Moment of Henry James." The Cambridge Companion to Henry James (1998).

Freedman, Jonathan. "Aestheticism and The Portrait of a Lady."Henry James: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Prentice-Hall, 1994, 60-78.

Hadley, Tessa. Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. [see introduction and chapter one]

Luciano, Dana. "Invalid Relations: Queer Kinship in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady." The Henry James Review 23.2 (2002): 196-217.

Pigeon, Elaine. Queer Impressions: Henry James’s Art of Fiction. New York & London: Routledge, 2005. [see intro. and chapter one “Emerson’s Blind Spot: Romantic Effects in The Portrait of a Lady”]

Marshall, Gail. "Performances in The Portrait of a Lady." The Henry James Review 31.3 (2010): 264-270.

Miller, J. Hillis. Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James.  New York: Fordham UP, 2005. [see introduction and chapter two]

Porte, Joel, ed. New Essays on The Portrait of a Lady.Cambridge UP, 1990. This collection includes Porte's "Introduction: The Portrait of a Lady and 'Felt Life'," Donatella Izzo's "The Portrait of a Lady and Modern Narrative," Alfred Habegger's "The Fatherless Heroine and the Filial Son: Deep Background for The Portrait of a Lady," William Veeder's "The Portrait of a Lack," Beth Sharon Ash's "Frail Vessels and Vast Designs: A Psychoanalytic Portrait of Isabel Archer” (123-162, PDF on Bblearn)

Powers, Lyall H. The Portrait of a Lady: Maiden, Woman, and Heroine. Twayne, 1991.

Rowe, John Carlos. The Other Henry James, esp. intro. on 'Henry James and Critical Theory'. Duke UP, 1998, 1-37.

Sousa Santos, Maria Irene Ramalho de. "Isabel's Freedom: The Portrait of a Lady." Henry James, ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1987), 301-13.

Woolf, Judith. Henry James, The Major Novels. Cambridge UP, 1991. See chapter 3, pp.35-58.

Weisbuch, Robert. "Henry James and the Idea of Evil." The Cambridge Companion to Henry James, ed. J. Freedman (1998), 102-19.

Anthony Lane's review of Michael Gorra's new book on James and The Portrait . . . [see folder on Bblearn]

David Yaffe's tribute to the novel [see file on Bblearn]