Help Eleanor Come Home”
Monstrous Maternity in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynne Evans (0000-0002-2943-3964, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-120 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.2018.015 |
| OpenAlex | W2944176343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article argues that Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959) employs Freudian theories of maternity to interrogate the subject position of mother within psychoanalysis itself. In the context of a mid-twentieth-century popularization of psychoanalysis, maternity in Hill House challenges the heteronormative foundations of a post-Freudian America
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |