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020 _a0312122608 (hardcover)
020 _a0312080832 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aPS 2116
_b.J27 1995
082 0 0 _aCLA
_bJ23t 1993
100 1 _aJames, Henry,
_d1843-1916.
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245 1 4 _aThe turn of the screw /
_cHenry James ; edited by Peter G. Beidler.
260 _aBoston :
_bBedford Books of St. Martin's Press,
_cc1995.
300 _a313 p. ;
_c22 cm.
490 1 _aCase studies in contemporary criticism
500 _a"Complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aPt. 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.
505 8 _a"They don't much count, do they?": The Unfinished History of The Turn of the Screw / Bruce Robbins.
520 _aThis 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.
520 8 _aIn 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.
600 1 0 _aJames, Henry,
_d1843-1916.
_tTurn of the screw.
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650 0 _aGovernesses
_zEngland
_vFiction.
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650 0 _aChildren
_zEngland
_vFiction.
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700 1 _aBeidler, Peter G.
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830 0 _aCase studies in contemporary criticism.
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900 _bTOC
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