The operas of Benjamin Britten : expression and evasion / by Seymour, Claire, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Paul Bunyan -- Peter Grimes -- The rape of Lucretia -- Albert Herring -- The little sweep -- Billy Budd -- Gloriana -- The turn of the screw -- Noye's fludde -- A midsummer night's dream -- The church parables -- Owen Wingrave -- Death in Venice -- Conclusion.…”
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Henry James and the promise of fiction / by Burrows, Stuart, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the promise of art -- Promising others : The Portrait of a Lady -- Promising for others : The Turn of the Screw -- Promising oneself : The Ambassadors -- Promising to love : The Wings of the Dove -- Promising to lie : The Golden Bowl -- Promising the future : "The beast in the jungle" -- Promising the past : "The figure in the carpet."…”
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The saga of the Sydney Opera House : the dramatic story of the design and construction of the icon of modern Australia / by Murray, Peter, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; A magnificent doodle; Collaboration and creativity; The move to Sydney; A quart into a pint pot; The turn of the screw; 'You have forced me to leave'; The aftermath; Ars longa, vita brevis; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Dead women talking : figures of injustice in American literature / by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" -- Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw -- Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens -- Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead -- Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God -- Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones -- Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body -- When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman".…”

The intentional brain : motion, emotion, and the development of modern neuropsychiatry / by Trimble, Michael R.

Table of Contents: “…Origins of the romance -- The Middle Ages : darkness and light -- The Renaissance -- The Enlightenment -- Romanticism : early developments -- Late romanticism : strange times -- Charcot's joints -- The division of the hemispheres -- Fin de la siècle -- The turn of the screw -- The in-between years -- After the war : back to the front -- Coda -- Neuropsychiatry then and now.…”
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Henry James goes to the movies /

Table of Contents: “…The story held us : The turn of the screw from Henry James to Jack Clayton / Anthony J. …”
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Literary Britten : words and music in Benjamin Britten's vocal works /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Kate Kennedy -- Britten and his librettists : the composer as auteur / Mervyn Cooke -- Britten, Auden and the 1930s / John Fuller -- James, Britten, Piper and the literary supernatural : the changing "vision of evil" in The turn of the screw and Owen Wingrave / Nick Clark -- "Thought's wildernesses" : the development of Britten's Nocturne from library to score / Kate Kennedy -- "Reading at intervals" : Britten's romantic poetry / Brian Young -- Britten's drops : the lyric into song / Rebekah Scott -- "Without any tune" : the role of the discursive shift in Britten's interpretation of poetry / Vicki P. …”
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Literary Britten : words and music in Benjamin Britten's vocal works /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Kate Kennedy -- Britten and his librettists : the composer as auteur / Mervyn Cooke -- Britten, Auden and the 1930s / John Fuller -- James, Britten, Piper and the literary supernatural : the changing "vision of evil" in The turn of the screw and Owen Wingrave / Nick Clark -- "Thought's wildernesses" : the development of Britten's Nocturne from library to score / Kate Kennedy -- "Reading at intervals" : Britten's romantic poetry / Brian Young -- Britten's drops : the lyric into song / Rebekah Scott -- "Without any tune" : the role of the discursive shift in Britten's interpretation of poetry / Vicki P. …”
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Perceptions of Childhood in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle. by Sattaur, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: change and childhood -- Childhood and evolution: Jekyll and Hyde and the monstrous child -- Childhood and aestheticism: The Happy Prince and the idealised child -- Childhood and religion: Lilith and the suffering child -- Childhood and empire: The Jungle Books and the savage child -- The uncanny child: The Turn of the Screw -- Childhood and education: Cautionary Tales for Children and the criminal child -- Conclusion: child and trickster: the end of eras.…”
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The moral of the story : literature, values, and American education / by Pierce, Susan Resneck, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Values and the American education -- Literature, values, and moral choice -- The Scarlet Letter (1880) by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain -- The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886) by Leo Tolstoy -- The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James -- Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad -- The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin -- The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka -- The Great Gatsby (1926) by F. …”

Cultural institutions of the novel /

Table of Contents: “…Warner -- "To love a murderer"-fantasy, sexuality, and the political novel : the case of Caleb Williams / Dorothea von Mücke -- The limits of reformism : the novel, censorship, and the politics of adultery in nineteenth century France / Jann Matlock -- Romance for "big and little boys" : the US romantic revival of the 1890s and James's The Turn of the Screw / Nancy Glazener -- Pax Americana : the case of Show Boat / Lauren Berlant.…”

The haunted mind : the supernatural in Victorian literature /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Caliban in a glass: autoscopic vision in The Picture of Dorian Gray / Nancy Jane Tyson -- Pedophiles amidst looming portentousness: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw / Elton E. Smith.…”

Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / by Hadley, Tessa

Table of Contents: “…: reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Third coast : OutKast, Timbaland, and how hip-hop became a southern thing / by Sarig, Roni

Table of Contents: “…Regionalism and early crosscurrents: The rise and fall of Miami bass -- Houston and the gangsta goths -- Memphis--pimped out or bucked up -- New Orleans' soldiers in the murder capital -- Synthesis and the new south sensibility: Atlanta-fusion and family -- Virginia-transmissions from the edge -- Atlanta as the new Motown -- Hip-hop's ruralization -- What goes around: Bounce music--from buck jump to bling bling -- Crunk gets crunk -- Houston reprise--the turn of the screw -- Epilogue.…”
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The last train : a family history of the final solution / by Bradley, Peter, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Finding my father -- The architecture of Anti-Semitism -- Articles of faith -- A small city in Germany -- Lives on licence -- The age of reason and unreason -- Four families -- The end of the beginning -- The beginning of the end -- The emigration trap -- Welcome to Great Britain -- The turning of the screw -- The road to Riga -- The cleansing of Latvia -- The end game -- Now we are free -- Searching for Sally -- Rays of light -- The shameful secret -- Choices -- The last word.…”

Censorship and literature in fascist Italy / by Bonsaver, Guido

Table of Contents: “…1: Mussolini takes the helm -- Towards a new system -- Carrots, sticks, and charismatic ruling -- The censor and the censored -- 2: Censorship fascist style, 1934-1939 -- From Press Office to ministry of popular culture -- Shaping Italian literature -- Anti-semitism and 'cultural reclamation' -- 3: A nation at war, 1940-1943 -- A turn of the screw -- Foreign fiction and weak autarky -- Unfinished business -- Conclusion.…”
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Censorship and literature in fascist Italy / by Bonsaver, Guido

Table of Contents: “…1: Mussolini takes the helm -- Towards a new system -- Carrots, sticks, and charismatic ruling -- The censor and the censored -- 2: Censorship fascist style, 1934-1939 -- From Press Office to ministry of popular culture -- Shaping Italian literature -- Anti-semitism and 'cultural reclamation' -- 3: A nation at war, 1940-1943 -- A turn of the screw -- Foreign fiction and weak autarky -- Unfinished business -- Conclusion.…”
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Visitations : stories / by Upton, Lee, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…-- A meadow -- Portrait of the artist's son -- After The turn of the screw -- Escape from the dark forest -- A stalker -- Experimental theater -- The wrath of the Norsemen -- Night walkers -- The stone wall -- The tell-all heart -- A story's end -- Ambrosia.…”
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House of Trump, house of Putin : the untold story of Donald Trump and the Russian mafia / by Unger, Craig

Table of Contents: “…(Virtual) World War III -- Trump's beautiful laundrette -- Married to the mob -- Brighton Beach -- Honey trap -- Gangster's paradise -- The billionaire boys' club -- Mogilevich's big move -- Turn of the screw -- The money pipelines -- Easy prey -- International man of mystery -- Bayrock -- Moth, flame -- Putin's revenge -- Blood money -- War by other means -- The battle is joined -- Back channels -- Endgame -- Trump's fifty-nine Russia connections.…”

Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / by Hadley, Tessa

Table of Contents: “…: reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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