Abstract
A close reading of the initial paragraphs in chapters 1 and 22 of The Portrait of a Lady reveals a number of formal devices summarized as an “adventitious style.” Their overall effect is that of exciting the reader's curiosity by impressing her with a sense of protracted, uninformed arrival at a foreign scene. Further textual analysis detects variations underlying this overall effect that chime with the moral and affective atmosphere of each of the two chapters.
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