2023
DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10562817
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Beyond Isabel Archer's Door: The Underground Railroad and the Condemned Plot for Freedom

Caroline Wilkinson

Abstract: This article radically reframes Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady in relation to the Underground Railroad, the transatlantic slave trade, US slavery, and racial housing segregation. Focusing on the house in Albany, New York, where Isabel Archer stays in the 1850s, it asserts that Isabel's pursuit of freedom is grounded in her 1850s childhood when the Underground Railroad was particularly active in Albany. It examines the Albany home within the historical context of the 1870s and 1880s, when, respectively, I… Show more

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