Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narratives - those fictionalized in her novels and short stories as well as the ones captured in her memoirs - to explore the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson's storytelling.

Examining various areas of homemaking - child-rearing and reproduction, housekeeping, architecture and spatiality, the housewife mythos - through the theoretical frameworks of gothic, queer, gender, supernatural, humor, and architectural studies, this collection contextualizes Jackson's archive in a Cold War framework and assesses the impact of the work of a writer seeking to question the status quo of her time and culture.

Author: Jill E. Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 12/30/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9781501370014
ISBN10: 1501370014
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century

About the Author

Jill E. Anderson is Associate Professor in English at Tennessee State University, USA.

Melanie R. Anderson is Assistant Professor of English at Delta State University, USA. She is the author of Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2013) and co-editor of The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities (2013) and Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences (2016).