hi! i think i've seen you post ocassionally fragments from essays and academic papers about shirley jackson novels. do you have some sort of rec list of those you've read and think are good or interesting? asking you as my go-to jacksonblogger
i've mainly read literary criticism on castle and hill house, and a few other general papers, so this is by no means an extensive list, just the few that i particularly enjoyed (so honoured to be your go-to jacksonblogger)
"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
"I Am God": The Domineering Patriarch in Shirley Jackson's Gothic Fiction (in) Ed. Ruth Anolik, Horrific Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature Author(s): Bernice M. Murphy
Shades of Shakespeare in the Queering of Hill House Author(s): Graley Herren
The Empty Vessel: A Dissection of the Worth of Madness and its Cure in Shirley Jackson's The Bird's Nest Author(s): Brigit Young
“I'll Come Back and Break Your Spell”: Narrative Freedom and Genre in The Haunting of Hill House Author(s): Hilarie Ashton
House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic Author(s): Roberta Rubenstein
"No proper feeling for her house": The Relational Formation of White Womanliness in Shirley Jackson's Fiction Author(s): Alexis Shotwell
if you're struggling to find links to any of these dm me and i can help
