A Closer Look at "The Turn of the Screw"
A Lamar University Critical Edition
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  • Context Sections
    • Biographical Context
    • Literary Context
    • Historical Context
  • Critical Summaries
    • The Author of Our Woe: Virtue Recorded in The Turn of the Screw
    • ‘He took no notice of her; he looked at me’: Subjectivities and Sexualities of 'The Turn of the Screw'
    • In Sexual Hysteria, Physiognomical Bogeymen, and the "Ghosts" in The Turn of the Screw
    • "Another Turn on James's 'The Turn of the Screw'" by Glenn A. Reed
    • Psychical Research and ‘The Turn of the Screw'
    • “Through the Cracked and Fragmented Self”: William James and The Turn of the Screw
  • Original Critical Essays
    • The Corruption of Innocence as Communicated through Benjamin Britten’s opera: The Turn of the Screw
    • Let’s Talk About Sex
    • Modern Oppression in an Victorian Setting: An Analysis on Methods of Emotional Separation in The Turn of the Screw
    • Nested: Exploring the mysteries in Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw'
    • Turning Screws
    • Victorian Gender Roles in Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw”

Literary Context

To understand the Turn of The Screw on a contextual level, the reader must consider what works were being written before and during the authors career. The reader can more easily understand why James chose a certain setting or storyline if they understand his influences.
The literary legacy of Henry James is equally important. It allows to the reader the understand the the wide net of influence James has, producing some of the writing styles we are used to today. 

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British Literary Movements
James's Literary Legacy
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