Portraying the Lady

Donatella Izzo is a professor of American language and literature at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. She is the editor of four volumes of criticism and the author of three scholarly books.

Donatella Izzo is a professor of American language and literature at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. She is the editor of four volumes of criticism and the author of three scholarly books.

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: The Manifold Arts of Re-vision Part 1. The Gaze: In the Museum of Women Confrontations 1. Women, Portraits, and Painters: "The Madonna of the Future" and "The Sweetheart of M. Briseux" 2. Women, Statues, and Lovers: "The Last of the Valerii" and "Adina" Substitutions 3. Woman as Object: "Rose-Agathe" 4. Woman as Image: "Glasses" Epilogue 1. Woman as Museum: "Maud-Evelyn" Epilogue 2. The Memoirs of an Objectified Woman: "Julia Bride" Part 2. The Voice: Discourses of Silence The Regime of Confession 5. Of Shame and Horror: "A London Life" and the Theatricals of Femininity 6. Dying to Speak: "The Visits" The Regime of Secrecy 7. Gender Trouble: "Georgina's Reasons" 8. The Word Not to Say It: "The Story in It" Epilogue 3. The Silence of the Sphinx: "The Beast in the Jungle" The End of the Story, or Telling a Different Story: "Mora Montravers" Notes Index