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Henry James on the Bench
- The Henry James Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2019
- pp. 155-174
- 10.1353/hjr.2019.0010
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay traces the apparently negligible but cumulatively very suggestive image and symbol of the bench back through James's oeuvre from his late dark tale "The Bench of Desolation" (1909), considering its dramatic and poetic uses, and its place in the world of his fiction, through close consideration of a multitude of sources, including The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl.