Title:
Shirley Jackson : essays on the literary legacy / edited by Bernice M. Murphy.
Author:
Murphy, Bernice M.
Publication Information:
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.
Call Number:
PS3519.A392 Z853 2005
Abstract:
"This collection of essays widens the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on works such as The road through the wall and We have always lived in the castle and topics from Jackson's domestic fiction to ethics, cosmology, and eschatology. The book makes available some of the significant Jackson scholarship published in the last two decades"--Provided by publisher.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011460.html
ISBN:
9780786423125
Physical Description:
viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Fallen Eden in Shirley Jackson's The road through the wall / Joan Wylie Hall -- Comic-satiric-fantastic-gothic : interactive modes in Shirley Jackson's narratives / James Egan -- Multiple personality and the postmodern subject : theorizing agency / Marta Caminero-Santangelo -- New world miniatures : Shirley Jackson's The sundial and postwar American society / Rich Pascal -- "The people of the village have always hated us" : Shirley Jackson's New England gothic / Bernice M. Murphy -- House mothers and haunted daughters : Shirley Jackson and the female gothic / Roberta Rubenstein -- "Whose hand was I holding?" : familial and sexual politics in Shirley Jackson's The haunting of Hill House / Tricia Lootens -- Shirley Jackson and the reproduction of mothering : The haunting of Hill House / Judie Newman -- Shirley Jackson : domestic horror / S.T. Joshi -- The establishment and preservation of female power in Shirley Jackson's We have always lived in the castle / Lynette Carpenter -- King of the castle : Shirley Jackson and Stephen King / Dara Downey and Darryl Jones -- Chambers of yearning : Shirley Jackson's use of the gothic / John G. Parks -- Stephen Spielberg's The haunting : a reconsideration of David Self's script / Darryl Hattenhauer -- Life lessons in Shirley Jackson's late fiction : ethics, cosmology, eschatology / Diane Long Hoeveler.
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