基本説明
The texts are all drawn from the authoritative New York Edition of his works and appendices include material on James' writings on the supernatural and the study of the supernatural in the nineteenth century.
Full Description
In 1898, Henry James wrote a novella that would become one of the most famous and critically discussed ghost stories ever written, The Turn of the Screw. Three other examples of James's tales of the supernatural, "The Altar of the Dead," "The Beast in the Jungle," and "The Jolly Corner," are included in this edition. These texts reveal on both the thematic and narrative levels James's deepest concerns as a writer.
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Henry James: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Texts
Tales
"The Altar of the Dead"
"The Beast in the Jungle"
"The Jolly Corner"
The Turn of the ScrewAppendix A: The Ghostly Tales: Inspiration and Reception
From Henry James, A Small Boy and Others (1913)
From Henry James Sr., Society the Redeemed Form of Man (1879)
From William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1929)
From Henry James, Letter to Mary Walsh James (26 March 1870)
From Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)
From Henry James, The American Scene (1907)
From Henry James, Letter to Frederick A. Duneka (28 August 1906)
From Henry James's Notebooks (1904-05)
Contemporary Reviews of "The Altar of the Dead"
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (May 1896)
William Dean Howells, Harper's Weekly (27 July 1896)
Contemporary Reviews of The Turn of the Screw
Oscar Wilde, Letter to Robert Boss ([?]12 January 1899)
From Literature (15 October 1898)
From "Mr. James's New Stories," Athenaeum (22 October 1898)
From "Henry James as a Ghost Raiser," Life (10 November 1898)
From Illustrated London News (3 December 1898)
Appendix B: The Study of the Supernatural in Nineteenth-Century England and America
From William James, "Certain Phenomena of Trance" (1890)
From The Times (28 December 1898)
From Catherine S. Crowe, The Night-Side of Nature or Ghosts and Ghost Seers (1848)
From William T. Stead, Real Ghost Stories (1897)
Appendix C: Excerpts from Henry James's Nonfiction Writing about the Supernatural
From Henry James, "Is There Life After Death?" (1910)
Henry James's Review of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1888)
From Henry James's Prefaces to the Tales (1906-08)
From the Preface to The Turn of the Screw
From the Preface to "The Altar of the Dead," "The Beast in the Jungle," and "The Jolly Corner"
From Henry James's Notebooks (1879-1914)
Appendix D: Other Writers and Artists on James
From Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)
From T.S. Eliot, "On Henry James" (1918)
From Virginia Woolf, "Henry James's Ghost Stories" (1921)
Charles Demuth's Illustrations for "The Beast in the Jungle"
Max Beerbohm on James's Return to the United States (1904)
Select Bibliography and Filmography
