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RECOVERING “COVERING END”: WHAT QUEER THEORY CAN DO FOR THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2008

Agnieszka M. Soltysik
Agnieszka M. Soltysik*
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
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The Turn of the Screw was published in five authorized forms during Henry James's life: as a serial in Collier's Weekly early in 1898, as one of two tales in a “duplex” edition published simultaneously in America and England in October 1898, as the second of four works in a volume of the New York Edition in 1908, and as the first volume of The Uniform Tales of Henry James, edited by Martin Secker in 1915. The first version, in addition to the frame narrative and twenty-four chapters, was divided into twelve installments and five “Parts.” The version published in the duplex edition under the title The Two Magics was altered to suppress these “Parts,” delete the ending of one chapter, raise Flora's age, and place “more focus. . . on the governess,” among other minor alterations (James, The Turn of the Screw 87). The New York Edition underwent even more substantial alterations.

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Research Article
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 247 - 252
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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