| Description |
ix, 252 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
New casebooks |
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New casebooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Neil Cornwell and Maggie Malone -- The Turn of the Screw. 1. The Trap of the Imagination: The Gothic Tradition, Fiction and The Turn of the Screw / Ronald Schleifer. 2. The Scene of Writing: Purloined Letters / Shoshana Felman. 3. The Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in The Turn of the Screw / John Carlos Rowe. 4. Repetition and Subversion in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw / John H. Pearson. 5. Blanks in The Turn of the Screw / T. J. Lustig. 6. Getting Fixed: Feminine Identity and Scopic Crisis in The Turn of the Screw / Beth Newman. 7. Gender, History and Modernism in The Turn of the Screw / Marianne DeKoven. 8. 'The Hideous Obscure': The Turn of the Screw and Oscar Wilde / Ronald Knowles -- What Maisie Knew. 9. Unsquaring the Squared Route of What Maisie Knew / Barbara Eckstein. 10. Undoing the Oedipal Family in What Maisie Knew / Julie Rivkin. 11. What Maisie Knew and the Improper Third Person / Sheila Teahan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916. Turn of the screw.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. What Maisie Knew
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Adolescence in literature.
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Children in literature.
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Ghost stories -- History and criticism.
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Governesses in literature.
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| Author |
Cornwell, Neil.
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Malone, Maggie.
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| LC no. |
98011472 |
| ISBN |
0312214669 (St Martin's) |
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0333684796 (cased) |
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033368480X (paperback) |
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