sorry if this has already been addressed, but do you have a list of your favorite papers on we have always lived in the castle?
i did my best to sort through my pdfs and find the ones i liked the most, if i realise i’ve missed any out i’ll reblog and add to it
Shirley Jackson’s American Gothic by Darryl Hattenhauer (it’s a book but his chapter on whalitc is stunning, pretty sure i’ve peddled this to all of my followers at some point, you can find it on libgen)
“The Hero Is Married and Ascends the Throne”: The Economics of Narrative End in Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” Author(s): Honor McKitrick Wallace
The Establishment and Preservation of Female Power in Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” Author(s): Lynette Carpenter
Blowing Up the Nuclear Family: Shirley Jackson’s Queer Girls in Postwar US Culture. Author(s): Laura de la Parra Fernández
Lesbianism, Disability and Pain: Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle as a Pathography. Author(s): Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
Girl anachronism: We Have Always Lived in the Castle and the depiction of adolescent psychosis in Excision (2012) and Stoker (2013) Author(s): Bernice M. Murphy






















