Download or read book Desire and Love in Henry James written by David Bruce McWhirter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With painful consistency, Henry James denied his characters the experience of fulfilled love. Yet in the final pages of The Golden Bowl, James affirms and celebrates the renewal of Maggie Verver's marriage and the consummation of her passion. McWhirter argues that James' last three novels in fact embody a radical refashioning of his vision.