SOURCE: "Cold Enclosures: The Fiction of Susan Hill," in Twentieth-Century Women Novelists, edited by Thomas F. Staley, Barnes & Noble Books, 1982, pp. 81-103.
In the following essay, Jackson approaches Hill's fiction in terms of a tension between detachment from and desire for life, identifying the idea of coldness as its "imaginative centre" and relating its principal themes and motifs to feminist concerns.
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