Shirley Jackson and Domesticity

<i>Shirley Jackson and Domesticity</i> 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.<br/><br/>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.