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The Portrait of a Lady/The Turn of the Screw

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. David Kirby
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Part of the book series: The Critics Debate (TCD)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-10
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • David Kirby
      Pages 11-15

  3. The Portrait of a Lady

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Survey

      1. Source criticism
        • David Kirby
        Pages 19-22
      2. Textual criticism
        • David Kirby
        Pages 23-24
      3. Technical and structural criticism
        • David Kirby
        Pages 25-28
      4. New criticism (image)
        • David Kirby
        Pages 29-32
      5. New criticism (character)
        • David Kirby
        Pages 33-36
      6. New criticism (theme)
        • David Kirby
        Pages 37-38
      7. Post-new criticism
        • David Kirby
        Pages 39-43

    3. Appraisal

      1. The growth of melodrama
        • David Kirby
        Pages 45-48
      2. A post-revolutionary genre
        • David Kirby
        Pages 49-51
      3. Starting from loneliness
        • David Kirby
        Pages 52-53
      4. The prisoner
        • David Kirby
        Pages 54-66

  4. The Turn of the Screw

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Survey

      1. Source criticism
        • David Kirby
        Pages 69-72
      2. New criticism (apparitionist)
        • David Kirby
        Pages 73-74
      3. Psychological criticism (non-apparitionist)
        • David Kirby
        Pages 75-77
      4. Post-new criticism
        • David Kirby
        Pages 78-81

    3. Appraisal

      1. A mid-life crisis
        • David Kirby
        Pages 83-84
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In this study, the author summarizes the reactions of the leading schools of criticism to these works and offers his own consideration of them, arguing that the novels are read most beneficially within the context of genre studies and that each is a melodrama.

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