Shirley Jackson and Domesticity

Jill E. Anderson is Associate Professor in English at Tennessee State University, USA.Melanie R. Anderson is Assistant Professor of English at Delta State University, USA. She is the author of Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2013) and co-editor of The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities (2013) and Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences (2016).

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity makes compelling arguments about role of gender and domesticity within the work of one of the 20th century’s most indelible writers. A thoroughly entertaining and insightful collection, this book leaves me eager to revisit and more deeply explore Jackson’s stories and essays.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMelanie R. Anderson (Delta State University, USA)1. Hideous Doughnuts and Haunted Housewives: Gothic Undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's Domestic HumorBernice M. Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)2. Enemies Foreign and Domestic: Shirley Jackson’s New Yorker StoriesAshley Lawson (West Virginia Wesleyan College, USA)3. “You Didn’t Look Like You Belonged in This House”: Shirley Jackson’s Fragile DomesticitiesMichael Dalpe, Jr. (College of New Jersey, USA)4. “Sharp Points Closing in on Her Throat”: The Domestic Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s Short FictionL.N. Rosales (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)5. Endless House, Interminable Dream: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Architecture and the Matrophobic GothicLuke Reid (Dawson College, Canada)6. Casting a Literary Spell: The Domestic Witchcraft of Shirley JacksonAlissa Burger (Culver-Stockton College, USA)7. Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Queer Failures and Bunker Mentality in The SundialJill E. Anderson (Tennessee State University, USA)8. Domestic Apocalypse in Shirley Jackson's The SundialChristiane E. Farnan (Siena College, USA)9. “I May Go Mad, but At Least I Look Like a Lady”: The Insanity of True Womanhood in Shirley Jackson’s The SundialJulie Baker (Independent Scholar, USA)10. Insisting on the Moon: Shirley Jackson and the Queer FutureEmily Banks (Emory University, USA)11. Shirley Jackson’s Merricat Story: Conjugal Narcissism in We Have Always Lived in the CastleRichard Pascal (Australian National University, Australia)12. My House Is My Castle: On the Mutually Enabling Persistence of Familial Devotion and Defunct Economies in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the CastleAllison Douglass (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)13. Flipping Hill House: The Netflix Revision of Shirley Jackson's Landmark NovelJessica McCort (Point Park University, USA)Index