The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

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Overview

Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eerily equivocal. This new edition includes three rarely reprinted ghost stories from the 1890s, "Sir Edmund Orme," "Owen Wingrave," and "The Friends of the Friends," as well as relevant extracts from James's notebooks and journals.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199536177
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 06/15/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics Series
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 453,598
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kimberly C. Reed is Professor of English at Lipscomb University and the co-editor with Peter C. Beidler of Approaches to Teaching Henry James’s Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw (MLA, 2005).

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Henry James: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Texts

Tales

  • “The Altar of the Dead”
    “The Beast in the Jungle”
    “The Jolly Corner”
The Turn of the Screw

Appendix A: The Ghostly Tales: Inspiration and Reception

  1. From Henry James, A Small Boy and Others (1913)
  2. From Henry James Sr., Society the Redeemed Form of Man (1879)
  3. From William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1929)
  4. From Henry James, Letter to Mary Walsh James (26 March 1870)
  5. From Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)
  6. From Henry James, The American Scene (1907)
  7. From Henry James, Letter to Frederick A. Duneka (28 August 1906)
  8. From Henry James’s Notebooks (1904–05)
  9. Contemporary Reviews of “The Altar of the Dead”
    1. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (May 1896)
    2. William Dean Howells, Harper’s Weekly (27 July 1896)
  10. Contemporary Reviews of The Turn of the Screw
    1. Oscar Wilde, Letter to Robert Boss ([?]12 January 1899)
    2. From Literature (15 October 1898)
    3. From “Mr. James’s New Stories,” Athenaeum (22 October 1898)
    4. From “Henry James as a Ghost Raiser,” Life (10 November 1898)
    5. From Illustrated London News (3 December 1898)

Appendix B: The Study of the Supernatural in Nineteenth-Century England and America

  1. From William James, “Certain Phenomena of Trance” (1890)
  2. From The Times (28 December 1898)
  3. From Catherine S. Crowe, The Night-Side of Nature or Ghosts and Ghost Seers (1848)
  4. From William T. Stead, Real Ghost Stories (1897)

Appendix C: Excerpts from Henry James’s Nonfiction Writing about the Supernatural

  1. From Henry James, “Is There Life After Death?” (1910)
  2. Henry James’s Review of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1888)
  3. From Henry James’s Prefaces to the Tales (1906–08)
    1. From the Preface to The Turn of the Screw
    2. From the Preface to “The Altar of the Dead,” “The Beast in the Jungle,” and “The Jolly Corner”
  4. From Henry James’s Notebooks (1879–1914)

Appendix D: Other Writers and Artists on James

  1. From Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)
  2. From T.S. Eliot, “On Henry James” (1918)
  3. From Virginia Woolf, “Henry James’s Ghost Stories” (1921)
  4. Charles Demuth’s Illustrations for “The Beast in the Jungle”
  5. Max Beerbohm on James’s Return to the United States (1904)

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