Shirley Jackson's American Gothic

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Shirley Jackson and Proto-Postmodernism 1(14) Some Conditions of Production 15(14) The Lottery or, The Adventures of James Harris (1949) 29(20) Come Along with Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures (1968) 49(18) Just an Ordinary Day (1996) 67(16) The Road Through the Wall (1948) 83(16) Hangsaman (1951) 99(20) The Bird's Nest (1954) 119(18) The Sundial (1958) 137(18) The Haunting of Hill House (1959) 155(20) We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) 175(16) Afterword 191(4) Notes 195(14) Works Cited 209(14) Index 223