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Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction, and also features family photographs and Shirley's own illustrations. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to three months before her premature death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote, full of subversive wit, vivid imagination, and gorgeous prose. Jackson spent much of her adult life as a faculty wife and mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is the everyday: trips to the dentist and dream vacations, overdue taxes and broken Christmas tree bulbs, new dogs and new babies, fad diets and recipes for fudge. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. This intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson--writer and teacher, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife--up to the light.

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From "The Lottery" to The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson's oeuvre has created an influential apocalyptic vision of America. This collection of essays offers new insights into her work, in light of themes of space, motherhood and race, as well as filmic adaptations of her work.

Literature. --- Jackson, Shirley, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Best known for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson produced a body of work that is more varied and complex than critics have realized. In fact, as Darryl Hattenhauer argues here, Jackson was one of the few writers to anticipate the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and therefore ranks among the most significant writers of her time. The first comprehensive study of all of Jackson's fiction, Shirley Jackson's American Gothic offers readers the chance not only to rediscover her work, but also to see how and why a major American writer was passed over for inclusion in the canon of American literature.

Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales, American --- History and criticism. --- Jackson, Shirley, --- Hyman, Stanley Edgar, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Jackson, Shirley

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Jackson, Shirley Ann, --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Officials and employees --- Selection and appointment.

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Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Short story --- Short story. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Danticat, Edwidge, --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Lessing, Doris, --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, --- Oates, Joyce Carol, --- Bradbury, Ray, --- Hemingway, Ernest, --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Hurston, Zora Neale. --- Joyce, James, --- Saki, --- Ellison, Ralph. --- Jackson, Shirley, --- Connell, Richard Edward, --- Thurber, James, --- Olsen, Tillie. --- Porter, Katherine Anne, --- Twain, Mark, --- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, --- Irving, Washington,