The Turn of the Screw | Literary Precedents
In its uniqueness, The Turn of the Screw rightfully stands beside other nineteenth-century gothic and supernatural masterpieces like Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1866), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). In terms of plot, a comparison can be made with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) which is referred to in the text. In both works, a governess goes to a remote estate to care for orphaned children, meets a widowed housekeeper who knows a dark secret and falls in love with the master...
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