Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Biographic Data

ID289951
NAMERuth Bernard Yeazell
GIVEN NAMESRuth Bernard
FAMILY NAMEYeazell
SIGNATUREYEAZELL R B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Henry James in–and out of–the Classroom

    Open AccessRuth Bernard YeazellARTICLEDaedalus2021

    Henry James did not write for the classroom. His personal experience of the institution was erratic at best, and most of his work was published at a time when the novel had yet to be formally recognized as a subject of academic study. But he believed strongly that “art lives upon discussion,” and the undergraduate classroom can be an invigorating space in which to keep that discussion going. Drawing both on my own experience of teaching James's n…

  • Henry James’s Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890–1915

    Ruth Bernard YeazellARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2018

    When F. O. Matthiessen identified Henry James’s “major phase” in 1944, he had in mind primarily the three late novels: The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (190

  • Henry James's Portrait-Envy

    Ruth Bernard YeazellARTICLENew Literary History2017

    "There is no greater work of art than a great portrait," Henry James flatly declared in his essay on John Singer Sargent of 1887. This is an extraordinary statement, especially from an artist who is himself known above all for the representation of human consciousness rather than appearances. Not only did one of the century's greatest writers thus sweepingly undo the traditional hierarchy of word and image, whereby the work of the poet had long t…

  • Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names

    Ruth Bernard YeazellBOOKPicture Titles2015

  • Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature

    Robert Fraser, Ruth Bernard YeazellARTICLEThe Modern Language Review2002

    Fascinating and mysterious, the idea of the harem long captured the imagination of the West. The Muslim practice of concealing the women of the household from the eyes of alien men tempted Europeans to extravagant projections of their own wishes and fears. This intriguing book examines the art that resulted. Drawing on a wide range of evidence from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century - including travel writing, literature,…

  • Reading and Writing Women's Lives: A Study of the Novel of Manners

    Jane Curlin, Bege K Bowers et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1993

  • Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel

    Marlies K Danziger, Ruth Bernard YeazellARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1993

    From the late seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, no figure was more central to debates in England about the relations between the sexes than that of the modest woman. Drawing on a wide range of narratives from the period, Ruth Bernard Yeazell analyzes the multiple and conflicting wishes that were covered by talk of and explores some of the most striking uses of a modest heroine. Combining evidence from conduct books and ladies…

  • The Conspicuous Wasting of Lily Bart

    Ruth Bernard YeazellARTICLEELH1992Cited by: 2

  • Henry James and the Darkest Abyss of Romance

    Ruth Bernard Yeazell, William Goetz et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1987

  • Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions

    Donald Morton, Linda S Kauffman et al.ARTICLEModern Language Notes1987

  • The Boundaries of Mansfield Park

    Ruth Bernard YeazellARTICLERepresentations1984Cited by: 2

    Research Article| July 01 1984 The Boundaries of Mansfield Park Ruth Bernard Yeazell Ruth Bernard Yeazell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 7: 133–152. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928460 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ruth B…

  • Alice James: A Biography

    Janet Varner Gunn, Jean Strouse et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1982

  • The James Family

    Open AccessAnne T Margolis, Jean Strouse et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1982Cited by: 2

  • Podsnappery, Sexuality, and the English Novel

    Ruth Bernard YeazellARTICLECritical Inquiry1982Cited by: 1

  • Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry James

    Robert L Gale, Ruth Bernard YeazellARTICLEAmerican Literature1977

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