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PETER G. BEIDLER is Lucy G. Moses Distinguished Professor of English at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA.

About the Series.- About this Volume.- PART ONE: THE TURN OF THE SCREW: THE COMPLETE TEXT AND REVISIONS.- Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts .- The Complete Text .- James's Revisions to The Turn of the Screw .- PART TWO: THE TURN OF THE SCREW IN CULTURAL CONTEXT.- The Victorian Governess in Fact .- The Victorian Governess in Fiction.- The Victorian Ghost in Fact .- The Victorian Ghost in Fiction .- Reactions .- Henry James Responds.- Henry James's Preface to the 1908 Edition.- PART THREE: THE TURN OF THE SCREW: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM.- A Critical History of The Turn of the Screw.- Reader-Response Criticism and The Turn of the Screw.- Psychoanalytic Criticism and The Turn of the Screw.- Gender Criticism and The Turn of the Screw.- Marxist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw.- Combining Perspectives on The Turn of the Screw.- Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms.- About the Contributors.