Shirley Jackson and Domesticity Beyondthe Haunted House : Beyond the Haunted House

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity 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. 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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Hideous Doughnuts and Haunted Housewives: Gothic Undercurrents in Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Humor* 2 Enemies Foreign and Domestic: Shirley Jackson’s New Yorker Stories 3 “You Didn’t Look Like You Belonged in This House”: Shirley Jackson’s Fragile Domesticities 4 “Sharp Points Closing in on Her Throat”: The Domestic Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s Short Fiction 5 Endless House, Interminable Dream: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Architecture and the Matrophobic Gothic 6 Casting a Literary Spell: The Domestic Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson 7 Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Queer Failures and Bunker Mentality in The Sundial 8 Domestic Apocalypse in The Sundial 9 “I May Go Mad, but at Least I Look Like a Lady”: The Insanity of True Womanhood in The Sundial 10 Insisting on the Moon: Shirley Jackson and the Queer Future 11 Shirley Jackson’s Merricat Story: Conjugal Narcissism in We Have Always Lived in the Castle 12 My House Is My Castle: On the Mutually Enabling Persistence of Familial Devotion and Defunct Economies in Shirley Jackson’s 13 Flipping Hill House: The Netflix Renovation of Shirley Jackson’s Landmark Novel Contributors Index "This collection explores the ways domesticity weaves through, interferes with, and influences Shirley Jackson's writing"-- Provided by publisher