THE FEMININE IN THE LITERATURE OF SHIRLEY JACKSON: AN ANALYSIS OF "THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE" (1959)
horror literature; feminist criticism; gender; female representations; Shirley Jackson.
This work proposes a reflection on the oeuvre of American writer Shirley Jackson (1916 – 1965), focusing on the study and analysis of the novel "The Haunting of Hill House" (1959). We aim to comprehend how Jackson's literature configures gender issues prevalent in the American society of the 1950s, the decade of the book's publication. To achieve this, we seek to identify and examine themes related to the feminine portrayed in the novel, based on a combined analysis of the narrative structures of the text and its production conditions.