In 1881 Henry James created the pictures of the good British society, on the scene of the gardens and the late Victorian living rooms. If The portrait of a lady was a woman image (the face and the gestures), James plotted with the same mystery on the portrait of a city, we would say of a life, between the post Victorian England and the ‘New World’. The idea of drawing A portrait of Lady was born exactly twenty-seven years after the Hard Times of Charles Dickens: The Portrait of Coketown, the other industrial city.
Abstract Nel 1881 Henry James dava vita ai quadretti della buona società britannica, sullo sfondo dei giardini e dei salotti tardo vittoriani. Se Ritratto di signora prestava il volto e i gesti a una donna, James tramava con lo stesso mistero sul ritratto di una città e diremmo di una vita, tra l’Inghilterra post vittoriana e il ‘nuovo mondo’. L’idea di disegnare A Portrait of Lady nasce esattamente ventisette anni dopo gli Hard Times di Charles Dickens: il ritratto di Coketown, l’altra città fabbrica.
Urbs e civitas in un ritratto urbano dell'età tardo vittoriana
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2018-01-01
Abstract
In 1881 Henry James created the pictures of the good British society, on the scene of the gardens and the late Victorian living rooms. If The portrait of a lady was a woman image (the face and the gestures), James plotted with the same mystery on the portrait of a city, we would say of a life, between the post Victorian England and the ‘New World’. The idea of drawing A portrait of Lady was born exactly twenty-seven years after the Hard Times of Charles Dickens: The Portrait of Coketown, the other industrial city.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
