" In the hands of an innovative team consisting of Sir Coutts Lindsay, his wife Blanche
Lindsay, and two managers, Charles Halle and Joseph Comyns Carr, the gallery developed …

Henry James was fascinated by clothing and dress. This book examines, for the first time,
the role of dress in reinforcing thematic and symbolic patterns in James's fictional world …

This title was first published in 2000: The American novelist and playwright, Henry James,
was drawn to the theatre and the shifting conventions of drama throughout his writing career …

The practice and theory of modern literary ekphrasis remain dominated by the original and
foundational pairing of poetry and painting in Horace's Ars Poetica, from which the ut pictura …

In" Daisy Miller"(1878), Henry James alludes to Shelley, Keats, and Byron, three defiant
Romantic poets of dubious reputation who died young in a foreign country, to create a rich …

James, when he contemplated human behavior, was not a typical Victorian prude. He found
treachery and greed and straying from the narrow too interesting, too intrinsically dramatic …

The study of 17th-century Dutch art in America is remarkable for its variety and abundance.
This reflects the nature of American universities and museums. Interest in the subject …

The 1968 BBC telecast of James's The Portrait of a Lady spotlighted Isabel Archer with a
dazzling succession of highly-wrought frocks, flounced, bustled and beribboned in sky-blues …

The author examines the relationship between Henry James and Mrs. Gardner, the founder
of the famous museum, in their correspondence, 1879-1914. Their friendship develops over …

To Henry James the analogy between painting and fiction was always useful and
appropriate. James commonly used the analogy to stress the representational as opposed …