The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew: Contemporary Critical Essays: 117 (New Casebooks) - Softcover

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.

NEIL CORNWELL is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol. His publications include The Literary Fantastic and James Joyce and the Russians.

MAGGIE MALONE is an independent scholar who has published articles on Jane Austen and on Shakespeare.