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Delight and despair, discovery and deception amid dislocation await readers who set out on intercontinental voyages with the free-spirited, youthful American Isabel Archer in Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady. Initially living in Albany, New York, the heroine first departs with her aunt Lydia Touchett on a transatlantic journey from the United States to England, before touring major metropolises of the Continent such as London, Paris, and Rome. As Isabel’s wish to find freedom in extensive travels both intersects with questions of financial self-sufficiency and conflicts with romantic desires, her adventures deepen themes of autonomy and kinesthesia previously addressed in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Villette.

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Multisensory Mosaic, Lively Motion, and Ghostly Grief in The Portrait of a Lady

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    2025年

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  • Natasha Anderson

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Delight and despair, discovery and deception amid dislocation await readers who set out on intercontinental voyages with the free-spirited, youthful American Isabel Archer in Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady. Initially living in Albany, New York, the heroine first departs with her aunt Lydia Touchett on a transatlantic journey from the United States to England, before touring major metropolises of the Continent such as London, Paris, and Rome. As Isabel’s wish to find freedom in extensive travels both intersects with questions of financial self-sufficiency and conflicts with romantic desires, her adventures deepen themes of autonomy and kinesthesia previously addressed in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Villette.