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“I Know Everything”: The Governess’s Failures of Consciousness in the Turn of the Screw

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Kirby, R.K. (2005). “I Know Everything”: The Governess’s Failures of Consciousness in the Turn of the Screw . In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Enigma of Good and Evil; The Moral Sentiment in Literature. Analecta Husserliana, vol 85. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3576-4_44

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