TY  - BOOK
AU  - James,Henry
AU  - Beidler,Peter G.
TI  - The turn of the screw
T2  - Case studies in contemporary criticism
SN  - 0312122608 (hardcover)
AV  - PS 2116 .J27 1995
U1  - CLA  
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
KW  - James, Henry,
KW  - Governesses
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Children
N1  - "Complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives."; Includes bibliographical references; Pt. 1. The Turn of the Screw: The Complete Text -- Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts. The Complete Text -- From the Preface to Henry James's 1908 Edition -- Pt. 2. The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. A Critical History of The Turn of the Screw. Reader-Response Criticism and The Turn of the Screw. "He began to read to our hushed little circle": Are We Blessed or Cursed by Our Life with The Turn of the Screw? / Wayne C. Booth. Deconstruction and The Turn of the Screw. "The grasp with which I recovered him": A Child Is Killed in The Turn of the Screw / Shoshana Felman. Psychoanalytic Criticism and The Turn of the Screw. "Red hair, very red, close-curling": Sexual Hysteria, Physiognomical Bogeymen, and the "Ghosts" in The Turn of the Screw / Stanley Renner. Feminist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw. "What then on earth was I?": Feminine Subjectivity and The Turn of the Screw / Priscilla L. Walton. Marxist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw; "They don't much count, do they?": The Unfinished History of The Turn of the Screw / Bruce Robbins
N2  - This edition of James's classic novel presents the 1908 New York Edition along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read The Turn of the Screw from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach; In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for James and The Turn of the Screw, a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms
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