{"product_id":"on-edge-gender-and-genre-in-the-work-of-shirley-jackson-patricia-highsmith-and-leigh-brackett-hardcover","title":"On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAshley Lawson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2025 PCA Emily Toth Award For Best Single Work In Women's Studies\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, 2025 Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards, Best Critical\/Biographical Category\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Bouchercon New Orleans 2025 Anthony Awards, Best Critical\/Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003eNominated for the 2025 Macavity Awards, Best Mystery-related Nonfiction\/Critical\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAshley Lawson's \u003ci\u003eOn Edge\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshley Lawson is Associate Professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Her research centers on twentieth-century American literature and women's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2025)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53557799551283,"sku":"9780814215746","price":107.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/nMJ5w-1fb69780814215746.webp?v=1782995215","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/on-edge-gender-and-genre-in-the-work-of-shirley-jackson-patricia-highsmith-and-leigh-brackett-hardcover","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}