Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction by Passey, Joan

Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction

The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes...
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Author: Joan Passey
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Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction by Passey, Joan

Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction

$173.65

Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction

$173.65
Author: Joan Passey
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as the mother of contemporary horror, scholars from across the globe, and from a range of different disciplinary backgrounds, dig into the lasting impact of her work in light of its increasing relevance to contemporary critical preoccupations and the re-release of Jackson's work in 2016. Offering new methodologies to study her work, this volume calls upon ideas of intertextuality, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis to examine a broad range of themes from national identity, race, gender and class to domesticity, the occult, selfhood and mental illness. With consideration of her blockbuster works alongside later works that received much less critical attention, Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales promises a rich and dynamic expansion on previous scholarship of Jackson's oeuvre, both bringing her writing into the contemporary conversation, and ensuring her place in the canon of Horror fiction.

Author: Joan Passey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 02/22/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781350361119


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2024

About the Author

Joan Passey is Lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK, where she has taught since 2016. She has published on Shirley Jackson in Women's Studies, introduced the biopic Shirley for 70+ Curzon cinemas nationwide, and participated in a Q&A to promote Shirley with Birds Eye View.

Robert Lloyd
is a teacher and researcher at Cardiff University, UK, and specializes in women's literature, the supernatural, and critical theory. He completed his thesis on Shirley Jackson and spectrality in 2021, is in the process of preparing his monograph, and has published on Jackson in Women's Studies.


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