The turn of the screw : authoritative text, contexts, criticism

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One of literature's most gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror creates what few stories in literature have been able to do -- a complete feeling of d...

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Main Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916
Other Authors: Esch, Deborah, 1954-, Warren, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, c1999.
Edition:2nd ed. /
Series:A Norton critical edition
Subjects:
James, Henry, > 1843-1916. > Turn of the screw.
Governesses > Fiction.
Governesses in literature.
Children > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Ghost stories.
Table of Contents:
  • The text of The turn of the screw
  • Contexts
  • Criticism
  • Henry James: a chronology.
  • Contents of "Criticism": Magic of evil and love
  • A masterpiece by Mr. Henry James
  • The story *** is distinctly repulsive
  • Academy portraits: Henry James / Henry Harland
  • Mr. James's new book
  • Henry James as a ghost raiser / Droch
  • On books at Christmas / John D. Barry
  • Two volumes from Henry James
  • The most hopelessly evil story
  • Psychic phenomena
  • Facts, or delusions / Oliver Elton
  • The "Iron Scot" stenographer / William Lyon Phelps
  • Henry James, and the ghostly / A.R. Orage
  • Henry James's ghosts / Virginia Woolf
  • A pre-Freudian reading of The turn of the screw / Harold C. Goddard
  • Henry James to the ruminant reader: The turn of the screw / Edna Kenton
  • The ambiguity of Henry James / Edmund Wilson
  • A radio symposium / Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Mark Van Doren
  • The Freudian reading of The turn of the screw / Robert B. Heilman
  • Her ghosts, her other selves, those parts of ourselves / R.P. Blackmur
  • The turn of the screw / Maurice Blanchot
  • Introduction to Tales of the supernatural / Leon Edel
  • The fantastic / Tzvetan Todorov
  • Henry James: madness and the risks of practice (turning the screw of interpretation) / Shoshana Felman
  • James: twists of the governess / Henry Sussman
  • Recognition: servant in the ending / Bruce Robbins
  • "Hanging fire": the primal scene of The turn of the screw / Ned Lukacher
  • History and epistemology: the example of The turn of the screw / Paul B. Armstrong
  • Henry James and the ghostly / T.J. Lustig.

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