The texts in this edition are all drawn from the New York Edition of James’s works. The introduction traces the extensive critical debate around The Turn of the Screw, and situates the texts in contemporary discussions of the supernatural. Appendices include material on the tales’ reception, James’s writings on the supernatural, and the study of the supernatural in the nineteenth century.
Kimberly C. Reed is Professor of English at Lipscomb University and the co-editor with Peter C. Beidler of Approaches to Teaching Henry James’s Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw (MLA, 2005).