On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814215746ISBN-10:814215742UPC:9780814215746Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Feminist, American, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCQ4JJ3R9S
On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett
Ashley Lawson's On Edge presents a new picture of postwar American literature, arguing that biases against genre fiction have unfairly disadvantaged the legacies of authors like Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett. Each of these women navigated a male-dominated postwar publishing world without compromising their values. Their category-defying treatment of gender roles and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814215746ISBN-10:814215742UPC:9780814215746Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Feminist, American, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCQ4JJ3R9S
Ashley Lawson is Associate Professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Her research centers on twentieth-century American literature and women's creativity. She has published essays on Zelda Fitzgerald, Dawn Powell, Shirley Jackson, Sara Haardt, and Estelle Faulkner. In addition to these specialties, her teaching interests include Iranian and Japanese women writers, femmes fatales,...
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