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

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"Based on the New York Edition text, this third edition of Norton Critical Edition of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James features the popular horror story of a woman hired as a governess for two children at a desolate estate. As mysterious figures begin to appear and evil lurks in the shadows...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916 (Author)
Other Authors: Warren, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Norton critical edition.
Subjects:
Governesses in literature.
Governesses > England > Fiction.
Children > England > Fiction.
Children.
Family members.
Ghost stories.
Table of Contents:
  • James, the Ghost Story, and the Supernatural
  • To Thomas Sergeant Perry [So Much for Cora] ; A Notebook Entry [Subject for a Ghost-Story] ; A Notebook Entry [Another Theme of the Same Kind] ; From a Preface [The Whole Fairy-Tale Side of Life] ; To Theodate Pope Riddle [Beneath Comment or Criticism] / Henry James
  • James on the Turn of the Screw
  • A Notebook Entry [Idea of a Servant Suspected] ; A Notebook Entry [Grose] ; A Notebook Entry [Note Here the Ghost-Story] ; To Alice [Mrs. William] James [Finished My Little Book] ; To A. C. Benson [Of the Ghostly and Ghastly] ; To Paul Bourget [A Little Volume Just Published] ; To Dr. Waldstein [My Bogey-Tale Dealt with Things So Hideous] ; To H. G. Wells [The Thing Is Essentially a Pot-Boiler] ; To F. W. H. Myers [The T. of the S. Is a Very Mechanical Matter] ; To W. D. Howells [Another Duplex Book Like the "Two Magics"] ; A Notebook Entry [Something as Simple as The Turn of the Screw] ; To W. D. Howells [To Concoct a "Ghost" of Any Freshness] ; Preface to the New York Edition [An Exercise of the Imagination] / Henry James
  • Other Possible Sources for the Turn of the Screw
  • The Genesis of "The Turn of the Screw" / Robert Lee Wolff
  • Psychical Research and "The Turn of the Screw" / Francis X. Roellinger Jr.
  • The Turn of the Screw and Alice James / Oscar Cargill
  • [Moral Anxiety, Vulgar Sexuality, and the Victorian Governess] / Mary Poovey
  • [Pure and Strangely Erotic: The Victorian Child] / James R. Kincaid
  • Adaptations and Illustrations
  • Illustration in Collier's Weekly (February 12, 1898)
  • Illustration in Collier's Weekly (March 5, 1898) / Eric Pape
  • Illustration in Collier's Weekly (February 12, 1898) / John La Farge
  • At a House in Harley Street ; The Governess First Sees the Ghost of Peter Quint ; Flora and the Governess ; The Governess, Mrs. Grose and the Children ; Miles and the Governess / Charles Demuth
  • Film Stills / The Innocents
  • Britten's The Turn of the Screw (2011) / Los Angeles Opera
  • Britten's The Turn of the Screw (2014)
  • Britten's The Turn of the Screw (2011) / Glyndebourne Festival Opera
  • Selected Stage and Screen Adaptations, 1950-2020
  • Criticism
  • Early Reactions: 1898-1926
  • Magic of Evil and Love / The New York Times
  • To Ford Madox Ford [An Intellectual Thrill] / Joseph Conrad
  • A Masterpiece by Mr. Henry James / New York Tribune
  • To Oliver Lodge [The Little Boy Feels Pederastic Passion] / F. W. H. Myers
  • [The Story Is Distinctly Repulsive] / The Outlook
  • To the Hon. A. E. Bontine [A Kind of Phosphorescent Trail] / Joseph Conrad
  • Academy Portraits: Mr. Henry James / Henry Harland
  • Mr. James's New Book / The Bookman
  • Henry James as a Ghost Raiser / Droch
  • On Books at Christmas / John D. Barry
  • Two Volumes from Henry James / The American Monthly Review of Reviews
  • [The Most Hopelessly Evil Story] / The Independent
  • To Robert Ross [Wonderful, Lurid, Poisonous] / Oscar Wilde
  • [Psychic Phenomena] / The Chautauquan
  • [Facts, or Delusions] / Oliver Elton
  • Henry James, and the Ghostly / A. R. Orage
  • [Henry James's Ghosts] / Virginia Woolf
  • [Merely Declining to Think About Homosex] / E. M. Forster
  • Major and Recent Criticism
  • 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
  • The Freudian Reading of The Turn of the Screw / Robert B. Heilman
  • Introduction to Stories of the Supernatural / Leon Edel
  • From The Secret of Narrative / Tzvetan Todorov
  • Turning the Screw of Interpretation / Shoshana Felman
  • James: Twists of the Governess / Henry Sussman
  • Recognition: Servant in the Ending / Bruce Robbins
  • Screwing with Children in Henry James / Ellis Hanson
  • The Turn of the Screw, or: the Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen / Eric Haralson
  • Turning the Screw Again: The Precocious Colonial Child in Henry James's Story / Paul Sharrad
  • An Innocence Worse Than Evil in The Turn of the Screw / Michelle H. Phillips
  • Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier's Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) / Kirsten MacLeod.

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