The Lost and Possessed Child in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist and Victor Kelleher's Del-Del

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  • Adrian Schober

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl1999vol9no2art1361

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Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, William Friedkin, William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist, Victor Kelleher, Del-Del, supernatural, the lost-possessed child, childhood innocence, childhood corruption

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“The Lost and Possessed Child in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist and Victor Kelleher’s Del-Del” (1999) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 9(2), pp. 40–48. doi:10.21153/pecl1999vol9no2art1361.

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