Gothic Studies, November 1st, 2006
Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy, edited by Bernice M.Murphy (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2005), ISBN: 0-7864-2312-9. 296pp., $35 [www.mcfarlandpub.com; 800-253-2187 ].
About a decade ago, the coldly irate parent of a college student confronted me, the English Department chair, with 'I knew that some day I would have to face this nightmare.' Trying to imagine what assignment had so upset this well-dressed, well-coiffed, suburban matron - maybe Lolita, maybe Lady Chatterley's Lover, maybe Ulysses - I braced myself for what literary catastrophe I would have t...
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