The Turn of the Screw US edition

3rd Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-10000-8
Verlag: Macmillan Learning

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism

This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James's classic 1898 short novel along with contextual documents and critical essays. This third edition features a new section detailing the revisions James made from the Colliers Weekly edition to the New York Edition, as well as new documents, illustrations and a psychoanalytic essay.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beidler, Peter G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series.- About this Volume.- PART ONE: THE TURN OF THE SCREW: THE COMPLETE TEXT AND REVISIONS.- Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts .- The Complete Text .- James's Revisions to The Turn of the Screw .- PART TWO: THE TURN OF THE SCREW IN CULTURAL CONTEXT.- The Victorian Governess in Fact .- The Victorian Governess in Fiction.- The Victorian Ghost in Fact .- The Victorian Ghost in Fiction .- Reactions .- Henry James Responds.- Henry James's Preface to the 1908 Edition.- PART THREE: 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.- Psychoanalytic Criticism and The Turn of the Screw.- Gender Criticism and The Turn of the Screw.- Marxist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw.- Combining Perspectives on The Turn of the Screw.- Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms.- About the Contributors.

Über Autor(innen)

PETER G. BEIDLER is Lucy G. Moses Distinguished Professor of English at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA.