Browsing by Author "Bellonby, Diana Emery"

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    • A Secret History of Aestheticism: Magic-Portrait Fiction, 1829-1929 
      Bellonby, Diana Emery (2012-08-01)
      Department: English
      This dissertation recovers the long nineteenth-century history of the magic-portrait story, a forgotten genre of prose fiction that climaxed in 1890 with Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. I argue that the history ...
    • The Portrait of Madame Merle: George Sand, Gender, and the Jamesian Master 
      Bellonby, Diana Emery (2008-07-31)
      Department: English
      Madame Merle is perhaps best known as The Portrait of a Lady’s secret mother, the principal source of mystery for both Isabel Archer and Henry James’s readers. I perceive her character through the lens of another woman’s ...