An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw / / Robert Lanier Clark, Thomas Mabry Cranfill.
The ambiguous intent of Henry James’s horror story The Turn of the Screw has fascinated and divided its readers since its publication in 1898. The division arises between the apparitionists and the nonapparitionists in interpretation of the plot and the characters. Thomas Mabry Cranfill and Robert L...
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