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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. Ruth Franklin envisions Jackson as belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James, and demonstrates how her unique contribution to the canon so uncannily channeled women's nightmares and contradictions that it is nothing less than the secret history of American women of her era. Franklin investigates the interplay between the life, the work, and the times, examining how Jackson's work shaped and was shaped by the era in which she lived.

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9781631493416
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Literary biography20th-century American literatureWomen's history

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