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Volume : II, Issue : IX, October - 2012

“A Comparative Study Of Cultures In The Portrait Of A Lady.”

Vidya S.Wagh

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

For Henry James the prime concern of the novelist is to focus on the real problems of an emerging nation - the problem of national identity. So, he turned to the moral and psychological problems of America and attempted to analyze and project them against the background of Europe. For him his Americans were naïve, innocents confronting a complex and often corrupt established society. So he wanted to examine carefully American's national identity and international role in the late Nineteenth Century – e.g. By his portrait of one young American Lady – “Isabel Archur.”In a word she is too perfect social animal who is connected with every incident and character of the novel. Through the study of her character, the novelist depicts the culture of both countries – America and Europe.

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Vidya S.Wagh, (2012). “A Comparative Study Of Cultures In The Portrait Of A Lady.”. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. IX, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1542.pdf

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