The Turn of the Screw. Second Edition

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 Page [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 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 • ["That Wanton Little Tale"] To H. G. Wells • ["The Thing Is Essentially a Pot-Boiler"] To 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 Droch • Henry James as a Ghost Raiser John D. Barry • On Books at Christmas The American Monthly Review of Reviews • Two Volumes from Henry James The Independent • ["The Most Hopelessly Evil Story"] The Chautauquan • ["Psychic Phenomena"] Oliver Elton • ["Facts, or Delusions"] William Lyon Phelps • [The "Iron Scott" 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 Tate, 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 Shosahana 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 Lukacher • "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