The Portrait of a Lady: A Journey from Self Deception to Self Destruction

Abstract

Wherever there are people there will be a Literature. A Literature is the record of human experience and people have always been impelled to write down their impressions of life. They do so in diaries and letters, in pamphlets and books and in essays, poems, plays and fiction. In this respect American literature is like any other, though it displays many characteristics that are similar and many that are dissimilar to the literary tradition of other nations.