Shirley Jackson : essays on the literary legacy / edited by Bernice M. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Bernice M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965--Criticism and interpretation.

Jackson, Shirley.

Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2005]

Summary:

"This collection of essays widens the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on works such as The road through the wall and We have always lived in the castle and topics from Jackson's domestic fiction to ethics, cosmology, and eschatology. The book makes available some of the significant Jackson scholarship published in the last two decades"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Fallen Eden in Shirley Jackson's The road through the wall / Joan Wylie Hall

Comic-satiric-fantastic-gothic : interactive modes in Shirley Jackson's narratives / James Egan

Multiple personality and the postmodern subject : theorizing agency / Marta Caminero-Santangelo

New world miniatures : Shirley Jackson's The sundial and postwar American society / Rich Pascal

"The people of the village have always hated us" : Shirley Jackson's New England gothic / Bernice M. Murphy

House mothers and haunted daughters : Shirley Jackson and the female gothic / Roberta Rubenstein

"Whose hand was I holding?" : familial and sexual politics in Shirley Jackson's The haunting of Hill House / Tricia Lootens

Shirley Jackson and the reproduction of mothering : The haunting of Hill House / Judie Newman

Shirley Jackson : domestic horror / S.T. Joshi

The establishment and preservation of female power in Shirley Jackson's We have always lived in the castle / Lynette Carpenter

King of the castle : Shirley Jackson and Stephen King / Dara Downey and Darryl Jones

Chambers of yearning : Shirley Jackson's use of the gothic / John G. Parks

Stephen Spielberg's The haunting : a reconsideration of David Self's script / Darryl Hattenhauer

Life lessons in Shirley Jackson's late fiction : ethics, cosmology, eschatology / Diane Long Hoeveler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Appendix: Shirley Jackson bibliography": pages 281-285.

ISBN:

0786423129

OCLC:

59881728