The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew

This volume covers a range of different critical approaches to Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. A controversy over the reality or otherwise of the ghosts has given way to a general recognition of textual ambiguity, and developments in criticism, including feminist, materialist and poststructuralist readings, have brought out fundamental underlying issues of gender, class and sexuality. Also included in this book are essays on What Maisie Knew, one of James's most morally complicated novels.