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On edge : gender and genre in the work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawson, Ashley, 1981- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Jackson, Shirley, > 1916-1965 > Criticism and interpretation.
Highsmith, Patricia, > 1921-1995 > Criticism and interpretation.
Brackett, Leigh > Criticism and interpretation.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Fiction genres.
Literary form.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Roman > Typologie.
Genres littéraires.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Gender and genre : breaking boundaries
  • Brackett's genre-perfect/genre-bending crime fiction
  • Conflicted perspectives in Jackson's and Highsmith's crime fiction
  • The alien among us : expanding reality in speculative fiction
  • Gothic subjectivity in Jackson and Highsmith
  • Dystopian visions of community in pre- and post-apocalyptic fiction
  • Housebound : domestic realism and women's magazines.