Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Poe's "Oval Portrait"
Chapter 2. The Portrait's Two Faces: James's "The Special Type" and "The Tone of Time"
Chapter 3. The Portrait Paint er and His Doubles: Hoffmann's "Die Doppeltgänger," Gautier's "La Cafetière," and Nerval's "Portrait du diable"
Chapter 4. On Portraits, Paint ers, and Women: Balzac's La Maison du chat- qui- pelote and James's "Glasses"
Chapter 5. 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
Chapter 6. Portraits, Parents, and Children: Storm's "Aquis submersus" and Sand's "Le Château de Pictordu"
Chapter 7. Gogol, "The Portrait"
Afterword. Reading Portrait Stories
Notes
Works Cited
Index