On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett - Couverture rigide

Lawson, Ashley

 
9780814215746: On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0814215742 ISBN 13 : 9780814215746
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Honorable Mention, 2025 PCA Emily Toth Award For Best Single Work In Women’s Studies
Finalist, 2025 Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards, Best Critical/Biographical Category
Finalist, Bouchercon New Orleans 2025 Anthony Awards, Best Critical/Non-Fiction
Nominated for the 2025 Macavity Awards, Best Mystery-related Nonfiction/Critical

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 genre classifications created suspense in their work that spoke to the tensions of the “Age of Anxiety.” Lawson engages with foundational voices in American literature, genre theory, and feminism to argue that, by merging the dominant mode of literary realism with fantastical or heightened elements, Brackett, Jackson, and Highsmith responded to the big questions of their era with startling and unnerving answers. By elevating genre play to a marker of literary skill, Lawson contends, we can secure these writers a more prominent place within the canon of midcentury American literature and open the door for the recovery of their similarly innovative peers.

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À propos de l?auteur

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 Haard

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Éditeur
Ohio State University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814215742
ISBN 13 
9780814215746
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
210
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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