Lounging Men, Standing Women: Pose and Posture in the Aesthetic Interior

A key moment in Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady occurs when the story’s heroine, Isabel, enters the drawing room in her Roman palazzo to find her husband Gilbert Osmond seated and their guest Madame Merle standing. As several commentators have noted, Osmond violates codes of gentlema...

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Main Author: Richard W. Hayes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2023-03-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/13075
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