narrator in the frame storage does not send his servant retrieve this manuscript as this analysis says but but rather rights to his servant to mail him the manuscript. this is a trivial detail but since it is an accurate I thought I would point it out .
this essay states that gothic fiction began in the late 19th century which is totally inaccurate . all literary historians acknowledge gothic fiction began in at least the previous century was Horace Walpole if not before .
in the novel of the turn of the screw , the manuscript the reads to recount the story is the manuscript written in the hand of the governor who experienced the manuscript, the main character of The Narrative this commentary confuses me by referring to Douglas having copied the narrative and if that's being removed from the original by a couple of generations .. this is not match up with what I read in the turn of the screw . there's even a description of the governor's handwriting and the manuscript .
