The turn of the screw : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Henry James ; edited by Jonathan Warren, York University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Henry, 1843-1916, author.

Contributor:

Warren, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

Norton critical edition

Norton critical editions: American realism & reform

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Governesses in literature.

Governesses--England--Fiction.

Governesses.

Children--England--Fiction.

Children.

England.

Genre:

Fiction.

Ghost stories.

Horror fiction.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Summary:

"Based on the New York Edition text, this third edition of Norton Critical Edition of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James features the popular horror story of a woman hired as a governess for two children at a desolate estate. As mysterious figures begin to appear and evil lurks in the shadows, the young governess is determined to protect the children at all costs. The "Contexts" in the Norton Critical Edition provide readers with excerpts of James' notebook entries and letters, illustrations, and other possible sources for The Turn of the Screw. "Criticism" includes reactions and reviews from as early as 1898 to more major and recent criticisms. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: James, the Ghost Story, and the Supernatural / Henry James

To Thomas Sergeant Perry [So Much for Cora]

A Notebook Entry [Subject for a Ghost-Story]

A Notebook Entry [Another Theme of the Same Kind]

From a Preface [The Whole Fairy-Tale Side of Life]

To Theodate Pope Riddle [Beneath Comment or Criticism]

James on the Turn of the Screw / Henry James

A Notebook Entry [Idea of a Servant Suspected]

A Notebook Entry [Grose]

A Notebook Entry [Note Here the Ghost-Story]

To Alice [Mrs. William] James [Finished My Little Book]

To A. C. Benson [Of the Ghostly and Ghastly]

To Paul Bourget [A Little Volume Just Published]

To Dr. Waldstein [My Bogey-Tale Dealt with Things So Hideous]

To H. G. Wells [The Thing Is Essentially a Pot-Boiler]

To F. W. H. Myers [The T. of the S. Is a Very Mechanical Matter]

To W. D. Howells [Another Duplex Book Like the "Two Magics"]

A Notebook Entry [Something as Simple as The Turn of the Screw]

To W. D. Howells [To Concoct a "Ghost" of Any Freshness]

Preface to the New York Edition [An Exercise of the Imagination]

Other Possible Sources for the Turn of the Scflew

The Genesis of "The Turn of the Screw" / Robert Lee Wolff

Psychical Research and "The Turn of the Screw" / Francis X. Roellinger Jr.

The Turn of the Screw and Alice James / Oscar Cargill

[Moral Anxiety, Vulgar Sexuality, and the Victorian Governess] / Mary Poovey

[Pure and Strangely Erotic: The Victorian Child] / James R. Kincaid

Adaptations and Illustrations

Illustration in Collier's Weekly (February 12, 1898) / Eric Pape

Illustration in Collier's Weekly (March 5, 1898) / John La Farge

Illustration in Collier's Weekly (February 12, 1898)

At a House in Harley Street / Charles Demuth

The Governess First Sees the Ghost of Peter Quint

Flora and the Governess

The Governess, Mrs. Grose and the Children

Miles and the Governess

The Innocents: Film Stills

Britten's The Turn of the Screw (2011) / Los Angeles Opera

Britten's The Turn of the Screw (2014) / Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Britten's The Turn of the Screw (2011)

Selected Stage and Screen Adaptations, 1950

2020

Criticism

Early Reactions: 1898

1926

Magic of Evil and Love / The New York Times

To Ford Madox Ford [An Intellectual Thrill] / Joseph Conrad

A Masterpiece by Mr. Henry James / New York Tribune

To Oliver Lodge [The Little Boy Feels Pederastic Passion] / F. W. H. Myers

[The Story Is Distinctly Repulsive] / The Outlook

To the Hon. A. E. Bontine [A Kind of Phosphorescent Trail] / Joseph Conrad

Academy Portraits: Mr. Henry James / Henry Harland

Mr. James's New Book / The Bookman

Henry James as a Ghost Raiser / Droch

On Books at Christmas / John D. Barry

Two Volumes from Henry James / The American Monthly Review of Reviews

[The Most Hopelessly Evil Story] / The Independent

To Robert Ross [Wonderful, Lurid, Poisonous] / Oscar Wilde

[Psychic Phenomena] / The Chautauquan

[Facts, or Delusions] / Oliver Elton

Henry James, and the Ghostly / A. R. Orage

[Henry James's Ghosts] / Virginia Woolf

[Merely Declining to Think About Homosex] / E. M. Forster

Major and Recent Criticism

A Pre-Freudian Reading of The Turn of the Screw / Harold C. Goddard

Henry James to the Ruminant Reader: The Turn of the Screw / Edna Kenton

The Ambiguity of Henry James / Edmund Wilson

The Freudian Reading of The Turn of the Screw / Robert B. Heilman

Introduction to Stories of the Supernatural / Leon Edel

From The Secret of Narrative / Tzvetan Todorov

Turning the Screw of Interpretation / Shoshana Felman

James: Twists of the Governess / Henry Sussman

Recognition: Servant in the Ending / Bruce Robbins

Screwing with Children in Henry James / Ellis Hanson

The Turn of the Screw, or: the Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen / Eric Haralson

Turning the Screw Again: The Precocious Colonial Child in Henry James's Story / Paul Sharrad

An Innocence Worse Than Evil in The Turn of the Screw / Michelle H. Phillips

Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier's Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) / Kirsten MacLeod.

Notes:

"A Norton critical edition."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780393420371

039342037X

OCLC:

1162504068