On this, the centenary of its initial publication, The Turn of the Screw remains one of Henry James"s most remarkable narratives, one whose popularity when it was published is matched by its power to stir readers today. It is one of James"s most teachable texts, an indispensable reference point for such critical concerns as point of view and unreliable narration. As such, it is an invaluable introduc tion to the intricacies of James"s style and technique in the novels of the "major phase."
This revised Norton Critical Edition of The Turn of the Screw is again based on the authoritative New York Edition text, with history and notes. "Contexts" includes twenty-six selections from James"s fetters notebooks, and other writ ings centering on my little book, the ghost story, and the supernatural. Four Charles Demuth paintings, inspired by James"s text, are induded.
Since The Turn of the Screw has been a fochl text in recent theoretical consid erations of James and of the narrative generally, "Criticism" has been thor oughly updated to include seventeen new assessments, along with twelve earli er seminal essays.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Preface to the Second Edition
The Text of The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
Textual History
Textual Notes
Contexts
JAMES， THE GHOST STORY， AND THE SUPERNATURAL
To Thomas Sergeant Perry · ["So Much for Cora"]
A Review * ["Mysteries * * * at Our Own Doors"]
A Notebook Entry * ["Subject for a Ghost-Story"]
A Notebook Entry · ["Another Theme of the Same Kind"]
To Violet Paget [Vernon Lee] · ["Not the Class of
Fiction I Myself Most Cherish"]
To Francis Boott · ["I See Ghosts Everywhere"]
To Bernard Shaw · ["The Imagination * * * Leads
a Life of Its Own"]
From a Preface · ["The Question * * * of the "Supernatural" "]
Dictated Notes for The Ivory Tower ·
["The Pressure and the Screw"]
Dictated Notes for The Ivory Tower ·
["My Poor Blest Old Genius"]
To Theodate Pope Riddle · ["Beneath Comment
or Criticism"]
Dictated Notes for The Sense of the Past ·
["The Ideal Thing for Dramatic Interest"]
JAMES ON THE TURN OF THE SCREW
A Notebook Entry · ["Idea of a Servant Suspected"]
A Notebook Entry · ["Grose"]
A Notebook Entry · ["Note Here the Ghost-Story"]
To Nice [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 · ["That Wanton Little Tale"}
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 · ["A Little "Tale of Terror" "]
To W. D. Howells · ["A Story of the
"8 to 10 Thousand Words" "]
Preface to the New York Edition · ["An Exercise of
the Imagination"]
ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES DEMUTH
"At a House in Harley Street"
"The Governess First Sees the Ghost of Peter Quint"
"Flora and the Governess"
"The Governess, Mrs. Grose and the Children"
OTHER POSSIBLE SOURCES FOR THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Robert Lee Wolff · The Genesis of "The Turn of the Screw"
Francis X. Roellinger · Psychical Research and
"The Turn of the Screw"
Oscar Cargill · The Turn of the Screw and Alice James
T. J. Lustig · "The Turn of the Screw" and
"Gabrielle de Bergerac"
Criticism
EARLY REACTIONS: 1898--1921
The New York Times · Magic of Evil and Love
New York Tribune · A Masterpiece by Mr. Henry James
The Outlook · ["The Story * * * Is Distinctly Repulsive"]
Henry Harland · Academy Portraits: Mr. Henry James
The Bookman · Mr. James"s New Book
Droeh · Henry James as a Ghost Raiser
John D· Barry · On Books at Christmas
The American Monthly Review of Reviews · Two Volumes
from Heny James
The Independent · ["The Most Hopelessly Evil Story"]
The Chautauquan · ["Psychic Phenomena"]
Oliver Elton · ["Facts, or Delusions"]
William Lyon Phelps · [The "Iron Scot" Stenographer]
A. R. Orage · Henry James, and the Ghostly
Virginia Woolf · ["Henry James"s Ghosts"]
MAJOR CRITICISM: 1921--70
Harold C. Goddard · A Pre-Freudian Reading of
The Turn of the Screw
Edna Kenton · Henry James to the Ruminant Reader:
The Turn of the Screw
Edmund Wilson · The Ambiguity of Henry James
Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tare, Mark Van Doren ·
A Radio Symposium
Robert B. Heilman ~ The Freudian Reading of
The Turn of the Screw
R. P. Blackmur · ["Her Ghosts, Her Other Selves,
Those Parts of Ourselves"]
Maurice Blanchot · The Turn of the Screw
Leon Edel · Introduction to Tales of the Supernatural
RECENT CRITICISM: 1970--PRESENT
Tzvetan Todorov · The Fantastic
Shoshana Felman · Henry James: Madness and the Risks of
Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation)
Henry Sussman · James: Twists of the Governess
Bruce Robbins · Recognition: Servant in the Ending
Ned Lukachcr · "Hanging Fire": The Primal Scene of
The Turn of the Screw
Paul B. Armstrong · History and Epistemology:
The Example of The Turn of the Screw
T. J. Lustig · Henry James and the Ghostly
Henry James: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
