Neil Cornwell

The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew

Contemporary Critical Essays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After one hundred years, critical production on The Turn of the Screw shows no sign of abating. A long-standing controversy over the 'reality' or otherwise of the ghosts has given way to a general recognition of textual ambiguity, and recent developments in criticism, including Feminist, Materialist and Poststructuralist readings, have now brought out fundamental underlying issues of gender, class and sexuality. Also included in this volume are essays on What Maisie Knew; one of James's most lucid, yet aesthetically and morally complicated novels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780333684801
• ISBN-10: 033368480X
• Artikelnr.: 47667893

Autorenporträt

Neil Cornwell

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
General Editor's Preface
Introduction; N.Cornwell and M. Malone
PART I: THE TURN OF THE SCREW
The Trap of the Imagination: The Gothic Tradition, Fiction and The Turn of
the Screw; R.Schleifer
The Scene of Writing: Purloined Letters; S.Felman
The Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in The Turn of the Screw; J.C.Rowe
Repetition and Subversion in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw;
J.H.Pearson
Blanks in The Turn of the Screw; T.J.Lustig
Getting Fixed: Feminine Identity and Scopic Crisis in The Turn of the
Screw; B.Newman
Gender, History and Modernism in The Turn of the Screw; M.DeKoven
'The Hideous Obscure': The Turn of the Screw and Oscar Wilde; R.Knowles
PART II: WHAT MAISIE KNEW
Unsquaring the Squared Route of What Maisie Knew; B.Eckstein
Undoing the Oedipal Family in What Maisie Knew; J.Rivkin
What Maisie Knew and the Improper Third Person; S.Teahan
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.