NEIL CORNWELL is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol. His publications include The Literary Fantastic and James Joyce and the Russians.MAGGIE MALONE is an independent scholar who has published articles on Jane Austen and on Shakespeare.

• AcknowledgementsGeneral Editor's PrefaceIntroduction; N.Cornwell and M. MalonePART I: THE TURN OF THE SCREWThe Trap of the Imagination: The Gothic Tradition, Fiction and The Turn of the Screw; R.SchleiferThe Scene of Writing: Purloined Letters; S.FelmanThe Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in The Turn of the Screw; J.C.RoweRepetition and Subversion in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw; J.H.PearsonBlanks in The Turn of the Screw; T.J.LustigGetting Fixed: Feminine Identity and Scopic Crisis in The Turn of the Screw; B.NewmanGender, History and Modernism in The Turn of the Screw; M.DeKoven'The Hideous Obscure': The Turn of the Screw and Oscar Wilde; R.KnowlesPART II: WHAT MAISIE KNEWUnsquaring the Squared Route of What Maisie Knew; B.EcksteinUndoing the Oedipal Family in What Maisie Knew; J.RivkinWhat Maisie Knew and the Improper Third Person; S.TeahanFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex.