Shirley Jackson and domesticity : beyond the haunted house / edited by Jill E Anderson and Melanie R Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Jill E, editor.

Anderson, Melanie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jackson, Shirley.

Domestic relations in literature.

Housekeeping in literature.

Home in literature.

Families in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"This collection explores the ways domesticity weaves through, interferes with, and influences Shirley Jackson's writing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Melanie R. Anderson (Delta State University, USA) 1. Hideous Doughnuts and Haunted Housewives: Gothic Undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's Domestic Humor Bernice M. Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 2. Enemies Foreign and Domestic: Shirley Jackson's New Yorker Stories Ashley Lawson (West Virginia Wesleyan College, USA) 3. ?You Didn't Look Like You Belonged in This House?: Shirley Jackson's Fragile Domesticities Michael Dalpe, Jr. (College of New Jersey, USA) 4. ?Sharp Points Closing in on Her Throat?: The Domestic Gothic in Shirley Jackson's Short Fiction L.N. Rosales (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) 5. Endless House, Interminable Dream: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Architecture and the Matrophobic Gothic Luke Reid (Dawson College, Canada) 6. Casting a Literary Spell: The Domestic Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson Alissa Burger (Culver-Stockton College, USA) 7. Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Queer Failures and Bunker Mentality in The Sundial Jill E. Anderson (Tennessee State University, USA) 8. Domestic Apocalypse in Shirley Jackson's The Sundial Christiane E. Farnan (Siena College, USA) 9. ?I May Go Mad, but At Least I Look Like a Lady?: The Insanity of True Womanhood in Shirley Jackson's The Sundial Julie Baker (Independent Scholar, USA) 10. Insisting on the Moon: Shirley Jackson and the Queer Future Emily Banks (Emory University, USA) 11. Shirley Jackson's Merricat Story: Conjugal Narcissism in We Have Always Lived in the Castle Richard Pascal (Australian National University, Australia) 12. My House Is My Castle: On the Mutually Enabling Persistence of Familial Devotion and Defunct Economies in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle Allison Douglass (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) 13. Flipping Hill House: The Netflix Revision of Shirley Jackson's Landmark Novel Jessica McCort (Point Park University, USA)

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501356674

1501356674

9781501356667

1501356666