Shirley Jackson and Domesticity

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jacksons 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 Jacksons 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 Jacksons 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.