On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, an

Description: On Edge by Ashley Lawson Reframes postwar American literary fiction through the work of Leigh Brackett, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith, arguing that recognizing genre play as literary skill is essential for a more inclusive canon. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Ashley Lawsons 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. Author Biography Ashley Lawson is Associate Professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Her research centers on twentieth-century American literature and womens creativity. She has published essays on Zelda Fitzgerald, Dawn Powell, Shirley Jackson, Sara Haardt, and Estelle Faulkner. In addition to these specialties, her teaching interests include Iranian and Japanese women writers, femmes fatales, and the American gothic. Review "On Edge is exactly what scholarship should be. Lawson convincingly unpacks the biases of gender and genre at midcentury and proves that Jackson, Highsmith, and Brackett experimented with, and at times subversively transformed, popular genres. She reveals to readers the undercurrent of feminist concerns in genres more often remembered for the stifling of such concerns." --Margaret Reid, author of Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America"Lawson compellingly reassesses the importance of low literary forms such as woman-authored gothic, suspense, and science fiction, arguing for gender as its own meaningful genre and illustrating the ways that these authors answered serious intellectual questions--and leave a memorable literary legacy." --Jacqueline Foertsch, author of Freedoms Ring: Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave Details ISBN0814215742 Author Ashley Lawson Publisher Ohio State University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780814215746 Format Hardcover Imprint Ohio State University Press Subtitle Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett Place of Publication Columbus, OH Country of Publication United States Audience General DEWEY 813.52093556 Publication Date 2024-09-21 US Release Date 2024-09-21 ISBN-10 0814215742 UK Release Date 2024-09-21 Pages 210 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168407039;

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