Synopses & Reviews
This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of Jamess classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Two of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.
Table of Contents
PART I. THE TURN OF THE SCREW: THE COMPLETE TEXT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text [New York Edition, 1908]
Cultural Documents and Illustrations
PART II. THE TURN OF THE SCREW: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
Reader-Response Criticism
Wayne C. Booth
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Stanley Renner
Gender Criticism
Priscilla Walton
Marxist Criticism
Bruce Robbins
Combining Perspectives
Sheila Teahan
Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms