SOURCE: "The Most Valuable Thing: James on Death," in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter, 1976, pp. 507-24.
In the following essay, Hartsock focuses on Henry James's intellectually pragmatic perception of death as a "termination " and his emotional faith in the supreme value of life.
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