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"The Lottery" in Short Stories for Students by Kathleen Wilson (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780787616908
Publication Date: 1997-09-15
Contains concise synopses of the plots, characters and themes along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance and excerpted criticism.
Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin
Call Number: PS3519.A392 Z64 2016
ISBN: 0871403137
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
Still known to millions only as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) remains curiously absent from the American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author behind such classics as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Placing Jackson within an American Gothic tradition of Hawthorne and Poe, Franklin demonstrates how her unique contribution to this genre came from her focus on "domestic horror" drawn from an era hostile to women. Based on a wealth of previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of new interviews, Shirley Jackson, with its exploration of astonishing talent shaped by a damaged childhood and a troubled marriage to literary critic Stanley Hyman, becomes the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary giant.
Shirley Jackson by Lenemaja Friedman
Call Number: PS3519.A392 Z65
ISBN: 9780805704020
Publication Date: 1975-06-01
An evaluation and interpretation of the work of this unusual writer of novels and short stories.
Shirley Jackson by Harold Bloom (Editor)
Call Number: PS3519.A392 Z85 2001
ISBN: 0791059480
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Examine some of Shirley Jackson's most well-known works along with Bloom's assertion that she may, in fact, not be worthy of the canon. Reviewed here are "The Lottery," "Charles," and "The Haunting of Hill House."
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic by Darryl Hattenhauer
Call Number: PS3519.A392 Z7 2003 (also available as an ebook)
ISBN: 9780791456088
Publication Date: 2003-01-16
Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time.

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