This article sheds light upon a nineteenth-century reader-response approach to The Turn of the Screw and "Daisy Miller"grounded on an ethical basis that is shaped by dominant Victorian values, beliefs, and ideas concerning the catalytic role of family towards the proper raising of children, the importance of duty, the traits of the ideal woman and mother, and the good or evil nature of people who are members of different socioeconomic classes, all of which are controlling factors of

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... ed sexuality and its impact on social order. Within this context, the writer of this article claims that in both stories Henry