CRITICISM

Beidler, Peter G. Ghosts, Demons, and Henry James: The Turn of the Screw at the Turn of the Century. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989, 252 p.

Presents critical commentary on James's novella.

Cranfill, Thomas Mabry and Clark, Robert Lanier, Jr. An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965, 195 p.

Analyzes different aspects of The Turn of the Screw.

———. Henry James: The Turn of the Screw. Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, edited by Ross C. Murfin. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995, 313 p.

Offers an authoritative version of the novella, along with feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytical, and deconstructionist perspectives on the story.

Heller, Terry. The Turn of the Screw: Bewildered Version. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989, 151 p.

Full-length critical analysis of James's novella.

Kimbrough, Robert, ed. Henry James: The Turn of the Screw. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1966, 276 p.

Offers a text of the story as well as critical commentary on the novella.

Siegel, Eli. James and the Children: A Consideration of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, edited by Martha Baird. New York: Definition Press, 1968, 162 p.

Full-length critical study of The Turn of the Screw.

Willen, Gerald. A Casebook on Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1969, 393 p.

Collection of critical essays on James's novella.

Additional coverage of James's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1865–1917; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 132; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 12, 71, 74, 189; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vol. 13; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Novelists; Major 20th-Century Writers, Editions 1 and 2; Short Stories for Students, Vol. 9; St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 2, 11, 24, 40, 47, 64; and World Literature Criticism.