![]() ![]() The prescribed nature of womanhood makes up much of the work, presented in a Gothicized as well as a blissfully domesticized lens. Domesticity and horror coexist at the heart of Jackson’s text. Shirley Jackson, perhaps most noted for her short story “The Lottery,” questions the mid-century American woman’s role throughout her novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, published in 1962. ![]() Such a notion that a genre can use the home space as a reflection and reassertion, or a type of pushback to social realities, is essential to understanding “otherness” and power in literature. Fred Botting argues that the Gothic genre presents a “recasting of the nature of social and domestic fears” where narratives can create “different, more exciting, worlds in which heroines in particular could encounter not only frightening violence but also adventurous freedom” (7). ![]()
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