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Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy Paperback – October 19, 2005

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Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 she published six novels, one best-selling story collection, two popular volumes of her family chronicles and many stories, which ranged from fairly conventional tales for the women's magazine market to the ambiguous, allusive, delicately sinister and more obviously literary stories that were closest to Jackson's heart and destined to end up in the more highbrow end of the market.

Most critical discussions of Jackson tend to focus on "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. An author of such accomplishment--and one so fully engaged with the pressures and preoccupations of postwar America--merits fuller discussion. To that end, this collection of essays widens the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on such works as The Road through the Wall and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and topics ranging from Jackson's domestic fiction to ethics, cosmology, and eschatology. The book also makes newly available some of the most significant Jackson scholarship published in the last two decades.

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Bernice M. Murphy is a lecturer in popular literature at the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, and director of the M.Phil in popular literature degree program.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McFarland & Company (October 19, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0786423129
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786423125
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.61 x 9 inches
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Bernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and lecturer in Popular Literature at the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Her research interests include representations of place and space in American horror and gothic narratives, and popular fiction in all of its manifestations. Her forthcoming publications include 'The California Gothic in Fiction and Film' and (co-edited with Sorcha Ni Fhlainn), the essay collection 'Twenty-First Century Gothic', both of which will be published by Edinburgh University Press in Summer 2022.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly useful for dissertation purposes!
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I bought this text in the hope of it helping me out with my dissertation research and it did! It discusses various different themes (Jackson & Night, Jackson & American Society, Jackson & Uncanny) and I'd definitely recommend it. Ideal for research purposes and a must buy.
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