Author : Jill E. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501356666
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Shirley Jackson and Domesticity by : Jill E. Anderson
Download or read book Shirley Jackson and Domesticity written by Jill E. Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.