Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Poe's oval portrait -- The portrait's two faces: James's "The special type" and "The tone of time" -- The portrait painter and his doubles: Hoffmann's "Die Doppeltgänger", Gautier's "La cafetière", and Nerval's "Portrait du diable" -- On portraits, painters, and women: Balzac's La maison du chat-qui-pelote and James's "Glasses" -- Portraits of the male body: Kleist's "Der Findling", Hardy's "Barbara of the house of Grebe", and Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray -- Portraits, parents, and children: Storm's "Aquis submersus" and Sand's "Le château de Pictordu" -- Gogol, "the portrait" -- Afterword: reading portrait stories.
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