Introduction -- Poe's oval portrait -- The portrait's two faces: James's The special type and The tone of time -- The portrait painter and his doubles: Hoffmann's Die Doppeltgänger, Gautier's La cafetière, and Nerval's Portrait du diable -- On...
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Introduction -- Poe's oval portrait -- The portrait's two faces: James's The special type and The tone of time -- The portrait painter and his doubles: Hoffmann's Die Doppeltgänger, Gautier's La cafetière, and Nerval's Portrait du diable -- On portraits, painters, and women: Balzac's La maison du chat-qui-pelote and James's Glasses -- Portraits of the male body: Kleist's Der Findling, Hardy's Barbara of the house of Grebe, and Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray -- Portraits, parents, and children: Storm's Aquis submersus and Sand's Le château de Pictordu -- Gogol, the portrait -- Afterword: reading portrait stories
