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The Turn of the Screw

Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives

  • Authors
  • Henry James
  • Peter G. Beidler
Textbook

Part of the Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism book series (CSICC)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Turn of the Screw: The Complete Text

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 3-19
    3. The Turn of the Screw°
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 21-116
    4. From the Preface to Henry James’s 1908 Edition of The Turn of the Screw
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 117-124

  3. The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 125-125
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    2. A Critical History of The Turn of the Screw
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 127-151
    3. Reader-Response Criticism and The Turn of the Screw
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 152-178
    4. Deconstruction and The Turn of the Screw
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 179-206
    5. Psychoanalytic Criticism and The Turn of the Screw
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 207-241
    6. Feminist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 242-267
    7. Marxist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw
      Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 268-296
  4. Back Matter
    Pages 297-313
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About this book

Introduction

A critical edition of Henry James's classic novella, this volume reprints the complete text together with five specially prepared essays which approach the work from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives.

Keywords

construction edition essay Henry James history history of literature Marx New York

Editors and affiliations

  • Peter G. Beidler
    • 1
  1. 1.Lehigh UniversityUSA

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