BLOWING UP THE NUCLEAR FAMILY: SHIRLEY JACKSON’S QUEER GIRLS IN POSTWAR US CULTURE
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DOI: 10.12795/ren.2021.i25.02
Abstract: This paper intends to analyze the representation of girlhood as a liminal space in three novels by Shirley Jackson: The Bird’s Nest (1954), The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and We Have Always Lived in… read more here.
Keywords: shirley jackson; postwar culture; nuclear family;
“Help Eleanor Come Home”: Monstrous Maternity in Shirley Jackson’sThe Haunting of Hill House
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DOI: 10.3138/cras.2018.015
Abstract: This article argues that Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959) employs Freudian theories of maternity to interrogate the subject position of mother within psychoanalysis itself. In th... read more here.
Keywords: shirley jackson; hill house; haunting hill;