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Abstract: This essay argues that The Portrait of a Lady evinces a radical imagination in its treatment of the character Ralph Touchett. It examines Ralph's attitudes and behaviors through the lens of nineteenth-century anarchist political philosophy, including the writings of Peter Kropotkin, Paul Lafargue, and Mikhail Bakunin. Focusing on Ralph's self-presentation as a dissident, decision to share his inheritance with his cousin Isabel Archer, and later rethinking of that decision, this essay contends that Henry James critiques but ultimately does not disavow the radical ideas his novel explores.
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