Shirley Jackson and domesticity : beyond the haunted house /
Shirley Jackson and domesticity : beyond the haunted house /
edited by Jill E. Anderson and Melanie R. Anderson.
- viii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Melanie R. Anderson -- 1. Hideous doughnuts and haunted housewives : Gothic undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's domestic humor / Bernice M. Murphy -- 2. Enemies foreign and domestic : Shirley Jackson's 'New Yorker' stories / Ashley Lawson -- 3. "You didn't look like you belonged in this house" : Shirley Jackson's fragile domesticities / Michael J. Dalpe Jr. -- 4. "Sharp points closing in on her throat" : The domestic gothic in Shirley Jackson's short fiction / L. N. Rosales -- 5. Endless house, interminable dream : Shirley Jackson's domestic architecture and the matrophobic gothic / Luke Reid -- 6. Casting a literary spell : The domestic witchcraft of Shirley Jackson / Alissa Burger -- 7. Homemaking for the apocalypse : Queer failures and bunker mentality in 'The Sundial' / Jill E. Anderson -- 8. Domestic apocalypse in 'The Sundial' / Christiane E. Farnan -- 9. "I may go mad, but at least I look like a lady" : The insanity of true womanhood in 'The Sundial' / Julie Baker -- 10. Insisting on the moon : Shirley Jackson and the queer future / Emily Banks -- 11. Shirley Jackson's Merricat story : Conjugal narcissism in 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' / Richard Pascal -- 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 -- 13. Flipping Hill House : The Netflix renovation of Shirley Jackson's landmark novel / Jessica R. McCort -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
"This collection explores the ways domesticity weaves through, interferes with, and influences Shirley Jackson's writing"-- "'Shirley Jackson and Domesticity' explores the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson's storytelling. Examining 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."--taken from back cover.
9781501356643 150135664X
2019051467
GBC046890 bnb
019757563 Uk
Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965 --Criticism and interpretation.
Domestic relations in literature.
Housekeeping in literature.
Home in literature.
Families in literature.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Melanie R. Anderson -- 1. Hideous doughnuts and haunted housewives : Gothic undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's domestic humor / Bernice M. Murphy -- 2. Enemies foreign and domestic : Shirley Jackson's 'New Yorker' stories / Ashley Lawson -- 3. "You didn't look like you belonged in this house" : Shirley Jackson's fragile domesticities / Michael J. Dalpe Jr. -- 4. "Sharp points closing in on her throat" : The domestic gothic in Shirley Jackson's short fiction / L. N. Rosales -- 5. Endless house, interminable dream : Shirley Jackson's domestic architecture and the matrophobic gothic / Luke Reid -- 6. Casting a literary spell : The domestic witchcraft of Shirley Jackson / Alissa Burger -- 7. Homemaking for the apocalypse : Queer failures and bunker mentality in 'The Sundial' / Jill E. Anderson -- 8. Domestic apocalypse in 'The Sundial' / Christiane E. Farnan -- 9. "I may go mad, but at least I look like a lady" : The insanity of true womanhood in 'The Sundial' / Julie Baker -- 10. Insisting on the moon : Shirley Jackson and the queer future / Emily Banks -- 11. Shirley Jackson's Merricat story : Conjugal narcissism in 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' / Richard Pascal -- 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 -- 13. Flipping Hill House : The Netflix renovation of Shirley Jackson's landmark novel / Jessica R. McCort -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
"This collection explores the ways domesticity weaves through, interferes with, and influences Shirley Jackson's writing"-- "'Shirley Jackson and Domesticity' explores the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson's storytelling. Examining 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."--taken from back cover.
9781501356643 150135664X
2019051467
GBC046890 bnb
019757563 Uk
Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965 --Criticism and interpretation.
Domestic relations in literature.
Housekeeping in literature.
Home in literature.
Families in literature.