Approaches to teaching Henry James's Daisy Miller and The turn of the screw / edited by Kimberly C. Reed and Peter G. Beidler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reed, Kimberly Capps.

Beidler, Peter G.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 86.

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916. Daisy Miller.

James, Henry.

James, Henry, 1843-1916. Turn of the screw.

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Study and teaching.

James, Henry, 1843-1916.

Women travelers in literature.

Governesses in literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 221 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2005.

Summary:

Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw, two of Henry James's most frequently taught works, have great appeal to both students and instructors. They are accessible and engaging yet offer interpretive challenges and explore intriguing issues: social-class tensions, an unstable narrative, ambiguity, and a possibly horrific view of parental and sexual relations.

Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," suggests background readings, critical texts to use in the classroom, and various teaching resources. In part 2, "Approaches," twenty-three essays cover different approaches to Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw (among others, new-historicist, biographical, metatextual, semantic, queer-theoretical, visual), show how these two novellas may be taught alongside their film adaptations, and discuss the use of these two novellas in a composition course.

Contents:

Part 1 Materials / Kimberly C. Reed

The Texts in the Classroom 9

Teaching Resources 10

Part 2 Approaches

Contexts

The Difficulty with Plain Answers: Introducing Modernism by Way of Henry James / Kristin Boudreau 18

The Dialogism of Modern Women: A New-Historicist Pedagogical Approach to Daisy Miller / Sean Palmer 28

"The Hideous Obscure": Historical Backgrounds of The Turn of the Screw / Kimberly C. Reed 39

The Biography of Daisy Miller / Philip Horne 46

"And He So Dreadfully Below": Teaching Issues of Social Class in The Turn of the Screw / Robert Andrew Wilson 53

Classroom Strategies

The Governess as Teacher in The Turn of the Screw / Peter G. Beidler 63

The Matter of Perception: American Girls and English Ghosts / Collin Meissner 72

Teaching Daisy Miller Innocently / Gert Buelens 81

Daisy Miller and Reception: Lessons Learned Teaching Henry James in Europe / Nicolas S. Witschi 88

"Dramatise, Dramatise, Dramatise!" / Greg W. Zacharias 94

Theory and Intertextuality

Teaching Theory through Daisy Miller / Pericles Lewis 101

Teaching The Turn of the Screw and/as Literary Theory / Sheila Teahan 111

Teaching The Turn of the Screw Metatextually / Diane Long Hoeveler 118

Teaching Ambiguity: The Turn of the Screw and Shoshana Felman's "Turning the Screw of Interpretation" / Michelle E. Moore 127

Gender and Sexuality

The Jamesian Turn: A Primer on Queer Formalism / Eric Savoy 132

Mothers and Others: Anxieties over Substitute Mothers in The Turn of the Screw / Dawn Keetley 143

Making Masculinity Visible: Teaching Daisy Miller at an All-Male College / Warren Rosenberg 151

James and Composition

An Analytic Turn: Teaching The Turn of the Screw in the Writing Classroom / Marian Kelly 157

"Dishonoured and Tragic, She Was All before Me": Daisy and the Governess in First-Year Composition Courses / Sallie Duhling, Patricia Worrall 163

What the Freshman Knew: Jamesian Ambiguity in the International Composition Classroom / Anna Despotopoulou 169

James and Film

Driving Miss Daisy: Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller / Mark A. Eaton 177

"A Matter of Appreciation, Speculation, Imagination": Interpreting The Turn of the Screw and Film Adaptations / Monika Brown 186

A Visual Approach to The Turn of the Screw / Sue Sorensen 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-218) and index.

ISBN:

0873529200

0873529219

OCLC:

58985712