A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
1959
Introduction
Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House is an emblematic modern ghost story that resuscitated an abandoned genre and provided a framework for new gothic novels by authors ranging from Joyce Carol Oates to Stephen King. The novel is satirical, subverting the restricted lives of housewives in prefeminist America as much as the gothic genre itself. But to classify the novel simply as horror is to undervalue it as genre fiction, rather than literary fiction, where its complexity and quality more naturally place it. The Haunting of Hill House is heavily indebted not only to the gothic tradition—going back to novels like The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole—but also to first-wave feminist literature like The Yellow Wallpaper
(1892), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from which Jackson found inspiration for much of her plot and theme, reading the horror-story tradition as an allegory for women's lives in a male-dominated society. The Haunting of Hill House also grew out of extensive research that Jackson conducted into the pseudoscientific world of parapsychology. She introduces themes such as ghost hunting, extrasensory perception, and the strange paradoxes investigated by Charles Fort to a mainstream literary audience from their origins in narrow technical literature, enabling them to become mainstays of modern popular literature, film, and television. Jackson's novel is available in a 1996 Penguin Classics paperback edition.
Author Biography
Jackson was born on December 14, 1916, in San Francisco, California. She always deflected questions from the press about her biography, claiming that it did not matter with regard to her work, and usually claimed that she had been born in 1919 so as to appear younger than her husband, curiously an important point of social conformity in midcentury America. After her family moved to New York, she attended the University of Rochester but completed her degree, and met her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, at Syracuse University. Jackson kept her maiden name after marrying in 1940, flouting the name-change convention because she was already a published author. Hyman became an important literary theorist and a professor at Bennington College, in Vermont, where the couple moved.
Within the family, Jackson bore the responsibility of staying at home to raise the children, despite carrying on with an ever-more successful writing career that eclipsed her husband's in importance and income. She published several novels, dozens of short stories, a play, and various works for children and young adults during the 1950s and was generally considered to be in the first rank of young American writers during her lifetime. Perhaps her best known work is the short story The Lottery,
first published in the New Yorker in 1948, which explores the everyday brutality of life through a disturbing smalltown ritual. The Haunting of Hill House, Jackson's revival of the gothic haunted house story, is her most popular novel.