The Turn of the Screw

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Author: Henry James

ISBN-10: 1934648043

ISBN-13: 9781934648049

Category: Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction

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Miles and Flora are two children who see ghostly apparitions. Their governess, a neurotic spinster, believes the specters morally dominate the children.

About the SeriesAbout This VolumePt. 1The Turn of the Screw: The Complete TextIntroduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts3The Complete Text21From the Preface to Henry James's 1908 Edition117Pt. 2The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary CriticismA Critical History of The Turn of the Screw127Reader-Response Criticism and The Turn of the Screw152"He began to read to our hushed little circle": Are We Blessed or Cursed by Our Life with The Turn of the Screw?163Deconstruction and The Turn of the Screw179"The grasp with which I recovered him": A Child Is Killed in The Turn of the Screw193Psychoanalytic Criticism and The Turn of the Screw207"Red hair, very red, close-curling": Sexual Hysteria, Physiognomical Bogeymen, and the "Ghosts" in The Turn of the Screw223Feminist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw242"What then on earth was I?": Feminine Subjectivity and The Turn of the Screw253Marxist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw268"They don't much count, do they?": The Unfinished History of The Turn of the Screw283Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms297About the Contributors311