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A content warning: Over the past decade Melissa Makala (2013), Dara Downey (2014), Emma Liggins (2020), and others have offered essential focus on nineteenth-century women’s ghost stories, which had been largely absent in Gothic criticism. I hope to find and discuss the maternal gaze in these tales, but first I wanted to untangle the knots the governess’ maternal gaze has woven in The Turn of the Screw. However, like everyone else I find myself caught in her cat’s cradle, and trying to understand the governess’ meaning has led me to question my own perception. I have concluded it is impossible and this is her trick, her distraction technique, so I hope what follows is coherent.

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‘The More I Saw the Less They Would’: Subverting Hysteria and Surveillance in The Turn of the Screw, The Orphanage, and The Others

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    2025年

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  • Sara Williams

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A content warning: Over the past decade Melissa Makala (2013), Dara Downey (2014), Emma Liggins (2020), and others have offered essential focus on nineteenth-century women’s ghost stories, which had been largely absent in Gothic criticism. I hope to find and discuss the maternal gaze in these tales, but first I wanted to untangle the knots the governess’ maternal gaze has woven in The Turn of the Screw. However, like everyone else I find myself caught in her cat’s cradle, and trying to understand the governess’ meaning has led me to question my own perception. I have concluded it is impossible and this is her trick, her distraction technique, so I hope what follows is coherent.