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From: American Literary History[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Wardley explores the role of flirtation in Daisy Miller.] There is only one way to improve ourselves, and that is by some of us setting an example which the others may pick up...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionHenry James's first contribution to a British magazine, "Daisy Miller" appeared in the illustrious Cornhill (June and July, 1878). It had been rejected by an American magazine, perhaps because, a friend suggested, it...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Kirk examines stylistic aspects of Daisy Miller, focusing on James's use of ambivalence in the characters of Daisy and Winterbourne.] Any overview of the past century's...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Discovery of a Genius: William Dean Howells and Henry James[Howells, James's editor and literary agent for much of the author's career, was the chief progenitor of American Realism and one of the most influential American literary critics of the late nineteenth century. Through...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFirst published in London in the Cornhill Magazine in June-July 1878, "Daisy Miller" immediately prompted a controversy over the character of the story's heroine. Had Henry James offered readers a fair and judicious...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Birdsall argues that director Peter Bogdanovich intended to create a story of his own instead of remaining faithful to James’s original story and that Bogdanovich refined the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Philological Quarterly[(essay date 1948) In the following essay, Dunbar traces the development of James's novella.] In his introduction, Henry James says that Daisy Miller originated in an anecdote about a young American girl which he heard...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: American Literature[(essay date 1964) In the following essay, Ohmann analyzes James's portrayal of Daisy Miller, contending that his attitude toward his protagonist changes over the course of the novella.] Henry James's most popular...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date 1979) In the following essay, Barnett asserts that James proposes more options for women in Daisy Miller than in any of his other stories or novels.] Although Henry James satirizes the idea of a women's...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Literature and Psychology[(essay date 1969) In the following essay, Houghton explores the role of illness in James's novella, maintaining that many Americans visiting Europe become ill in the story "not so much because of any objective...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Comparative Literature Studies[(essay date 1969) In the following essay, Deakin places the character of Daisy Miller within the European tradition.] When William Dean Howells selected Daisy Miller as the one Jamesian character to emphasize in his...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date 1973) In the following essay, Kennedy examines the character of Winterbourne, concluding that he is puritanical and hypocritical.] As James Gargano pointed out in his excellent article, "Daisy Miller: An...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureMiller, Daisy Fictional character, the naive young American who is the protagonist of Henry James's novel Daisy Miller....Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureDaisy Miller Novel by James, Henry, published in Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and published in book form in 1879. The book's title character is a young American woman traveling in Europe with her mother. There she is...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Rivista Di Studi Italiani[(essay date June-December 1991) In the following essay, Bisztray analyzes the historical significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne's depiction of Rome in The Marble Faun compared to Henry James's depiction of the city in...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Atlantic MonthlyIn the following review, Mallon compliments L'Affaire as a fluffy, sparkling avalanche. [In the following review, Mallon compliments L'Affaire as a "fluffy, sparkling avalanche. "] For accuracy's sake, Diane Johnson's...Found in Contemporary Literary Criticism
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From: The Politics of Exile: Ideology in Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Baldwin[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Washington compares Henry James's Daisy Miller and Gatsby, emphasizing the themes of racism, white cultural conservatism, and repressed homosexuality.] Beginning with the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Letterature d’America[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Bush compares James’s 1909 New York edition revisions of Daisy Miller to the original 1878 text, focusing on the narrative inevitability of Daisy’s death in both versions...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Atlantic Monthly[(review date October 2003) In the following review, Mallon compliments L'Affaire as a "fluffy, sparkling avalanche."] For accuracy's sake, Diane Johnson's new novel [L'Affaire] should probably be titled Le Mort, since...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The House of Mirth: A Novel of AdmonitionOne of the literary models Wharton was working from, and against, as she refigured the innocent American ingenue in Lily Bart was the enigmatic—and perhaps unsatisfactorily drawn—Daisy Miller, from Henry James’s novella...Found in Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series