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Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.

Selected bibliography

  • Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature (2000)
  • Henry James: A Collection of Critical Essays (editor) (1994)
  • Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel (1991)
  • The Death and Letters of Alice James (1986)
  • Sex, Politics and Science in the Nineteenth Century Novel: Selected Papers from the Egnlish Institute 1983-1984 (editor) (1986)
  • Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry James (1976)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Howl, Howl, Howl! · 22 May 2008

Self-Made Man · 5 April 2007

subscriber-only content Ah, la vie! · 1 December 2005

subscriber-only content Merry Companies · 20 January 2005

  • Dutch 17th-century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution by Wayne Franits  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Too late to die early · 5 February 2004

  • Life in the Sick-Room by Harriet Martineau, edited by Maria Frawley
  • On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, edited by Hermione Lee

subscriber-only content Viva la trattoria · 9 October 2003

  • Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella edited by Scott Lewis

subscriber-only content Overindulgence · 28 November 2002

  • A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt

subscriber-only content Deadly Eliza · 1 November 2001

  • The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors by William Dean Howells et al
  • Publishing the Family by June Howard

subscriber-only content Is everybody’s life like this? · 16 November 2000

  • Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters by Linda Hunt Beckman

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive ‘I thirst for his blood’ · 25 November 1999

  • Henry James: A Life in Letters edited by Philip Horne
  • A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon

 not available in archive One of the Pyramids of Egypt · 27 May 1999

  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel Grundy