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- Title
"Help Eleanor Come Home": Monstrous Maternity in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
- Authors
Evans, Lynne
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
JACKSON, Shirley, 1916-1965; HAUNTING of Hill House, The (Book); MOTHERHOOD; PSYCHOANALYSIS in literature; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); 20TH century American literature; LITERARY criticism; HORROR tales
- Publication
Canadian Review of American Studies, 2020, Vol 50, Issue 1, p102
- ISSN
0007-7720
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/cras.2018.015