SOURCE: "Suicide in Henry James's Fiction: A Sociological Analysis," in CLA Journal, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, December, 1990, pp. 188-211.
In the following essay, Joseph interprets the many characters in Henry James's fiction who take their own lives in terms of the classifications of suicidal behavior adduced by Émile Durkheim in his Suicide: A Study in Sociology.
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