Shirley Jackson's American Gothic
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Shirley Jackson's American Gothic

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shirley Jackson's American Gothic

About this book

Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time.

Best known for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson produced a body of work that is more varied and complex than critics have realized. In fact, as Darryl Hattenhauer argues here, Jackson was one of the few writers to anticipate the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and therefore ranks among the most significant writers of her time. The first comprehensive study of all of Jackson's fiction, Shirley Jackson's American Gothic offers readers the chance not only to rediscover her work, but also to see how and why a major American writer was passed over for inclusion in the canon of American literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Shirley Jackson’s American Gothic
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. INTRODUCTION: Shirley Jackson and Proto-Postmodernism
  5. 1. Some Conditions of Production
  6. 2. The Lottery or, The Adventures of James Harris
  7. 3. Come Along with Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures
  8. 4. Just an Ordinary Day
  9. 5. The Road Through the Wall
  10. 6. Hangsaman
  11. 7. The Bird’s Nest
  12. 8. The Sundial
  13. 9. The Haunting of Hill House
  14. 10. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  15. Afterword
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited
  18. Index