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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Children's literature and the rise of "mind cure" : positive thinking and pseudo-science at the fin de siècle / by Stiles, Anne, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…The inner child in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little lord Fauntleroy and Sara Crewe -- Fauntleroy's ghost : New Thought in Henry James's The turn of the screw -- Rewriting the rest cure in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden -- Sunshine and shadow : New Thought in Anne of Green Gables -- New Women, New Thoughts : millenial motherhood in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland trilogy -- Epilogue: The cinematic afterlife of New Thought fiction.…”
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Henry James and queer modernity / by Haralson, Eric L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Indiscreet anatomies and protogay aesthetes in Roderick Hudson and The Europeans; 2 The elusive queerness of "queer comrades": The Tragic Muse and "The Author of 'Beltraffo' "; 3 The Turn of the Screw, or: The Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen; 4 Masculinity "changed and queer" in The Ambassadors; 5 Gratifying "the eternal boy in us all": Willa Cather, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde.…”
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Narrative causalities / by Kafalenos, Emma, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Reading narrative causalities: functions and functional polyvalence -- The princess and the pea(s): two versions, different causalities -- Nonchronological narration: Poe's "The assignation" and Browning's "My last duchess" -- The comforts that function c brings: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Racine's Phaedra, and James's Daisy Miller -- Lingering at functions d, e, and f: James's The ambassadors and Kafka's "Before the law" -- Sequential perception: James's The turn of the screw and Balzac's Sarrasine -- Narrative borderlands I: the lyric, the image, and the isolated moment as temporal hinge -- Narrative borderlands II: the image where stories proliferate in novels by Robbe-Grillet and others.…”
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Forms of modern fiction; essays collected in honor of Joseph Warren Beach,

Table of Contents: “…M. Johnson.--The turn of the screw as poem, by R. B. Heilman.--Life, art, and "The secret sharer," by R. …”

Opera arias / by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976

Table of Contents: “…The journey, nearly there ; The tower, how beautiful it is ; Lost in my labyrinth ; Go to sleep, my dolly dear : from The turn of the screw. Come, now a roundel ; Be kind and courteous ; Injurious Hermia : from A midsummer night's dream.…”

Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays / by Brett, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys : male relations in The turn of the screw -- Britten's dream -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? …”
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Henry James and queer modernity / by Haralson, Eric L.

Table of Contents: “…The elusive queerness of "queer comrades": The Tragic Muse and "The Author of 'Beltraffio'" -- 3. The Turn of the Screw, or: The Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen -- 4. …”
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Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays / by Brett, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Remembering Philip Brett -- Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys : male relations in the Turn of the screw -- Britten's Dream : for Sue-Ellen Case -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? …”
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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."…”
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The theory of the novel; new essays. by Halperin, John, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Intentions and intentions: The problem of intention and Henry James's The turn of the screw.--The Europeans. Halperin, J. Twentieth-century trends in continental novel-theory.…”

The men who knew too much : Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock /

Table of Contents: “…Edwards -- Colonial discourse and the unheard other in Washington Square and The man who knew too much / Alan Nadel -- Bump : concussive knowledge in James and Hitchcock / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- James's Birdcage/Hitchcock's Birds / Patrick O'Donnell -- Sounds of silence in The wings of the dove and Blackmail / Donatella Izzo -- The perfect enigma / Judith Roof -- Hands, objects and love in James and Hitchcock : Reading the touch in The golden bowl and Notorious / Jonathan Freedman -- The touch of the real : circumscribing Vertigo / Eric Savoy -- Specters of respectability : Victorian horrors in The turn of the Screw and Psycho / Aviva Briefel -- Caged heat : feminist rebellion in Henry James's In the cage and Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window / John Carlos Rowe -- Shadows of modernity : What Maisie knew and Shadow of a Doubt / Thomas B. …”

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture / by Mendelssohn, Michèle

Table of Contents: “…: the drama of identity in The importance of being earnest and Guy Domville -- Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde trials and interior decoration -- 'A nest of almost infant blackmailers': the end of innocence in The turn of the screw and De profundis.…”
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Henry James on stage and screen /

Table of Contents: “…Novick -- 'The master's voice' : Henry James and opera / Michael Halliwell -- Henry James : varieties of cinematic experience / Philip Horne -- The end of embroidery : from Washington Square to The heiress / Peter Swaab -- Ceremonies of innocence : men, boys and women in The turn of the screw / Michelle Deutsch -- Frank and Jim go boating : Henry James and the French new wave / David Van Leer -- Black and white and shades of grey : ambiguity in The innocents / Val Wilson -- Enduring ephemera : James Cellan Jones, Henry James and the BBC / Neil Berry -- Framing the 'sketch' : Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller / David Cross -- Marriage, influence and deception in Merchant-Ivory's The Europeans and The Bostonians / Elizabeth Brake -- 'Exquisite taste' : the recent Henry James films as middle-brow culture / Mark Eaton -- The consciousness on the cutting room floor : Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady / Michael Anesko -- For mature audiences : sex, gender and recent film adaptations of Henry James's fiction / John Carlos Rowe -- How to do things to words : making language immaterial in The wings of the dove / Marcia Ian -- Portraits of Lady Chatterleys : Jamesian triangles, Lawrencian eros and the triumph of cinematic adaptation in The wings of the dove / Richard A. …”

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. …”

History of the Gothic Twentieth-Century Gothic / by Armitt, Lucie, 1962-

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History of the Gothic : Twentieth-Century Gothic / by Armitt, Lucie, 1962-

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Rich and strange : gender, history, modernism / by DeKoven, Marianne, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- RICH AND STRANGE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I TOWARD THE MODERNIST NARRATIVE -- Chapter 1 MODERNISM UNDER ERASURE -- Chapter 2 A DIFFERENT STORY: "THE YELLOW WALLPAPER" AND THE TURN OF THE SCREW -- PART II CONRAD AND OTHERS -- Chapter 3 DARKER AND LOWER DOWN: THE ERUPTION OF MODERNISM IN "MELANCTHA" AND THE NIGGER OF THE "NARCISSUS" -- Chapter 4 THE VAGINAL PASSAGE: HEART OF DARKNESS AND THE VOYAGE OUT -- Chapter 5 THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT: THE AWAKENING AND LORD JIM -- PART III INTHE WAKE OF EARLYMODERNISTNARRATIVE -- Chapter 6 (ANTI- ) CANONICAL MODERNISM -- Chapter 7 AFTER MODERNISM -- NOTES -- INDEX.…”
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The Gothic fiction of Adelaida García Morales : haunting words / by Six, Abigail Lee

Table of Contents: “…Las mujeres de Héctor (1994) and Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898): Ghosts; 5. La tía Águeda (1995) and Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764): Frightening Buildings.…”
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After innocence : visions of the Fall in modern literature / by Otten, Terry

Table of Contents: “…Childhood's End: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James -- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding -- 4. …”
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