{"product_id":"on-edge-ashley-lawson-9780814215746","title":"On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashley Lawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814215742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814215746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Ashley Lawson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46070450225407,"sku":"9780814215746","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cf371748-24ac-4a3e-a538-af94308ee5a5.jpg?v=1724243301","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-edge-ashley-lawson-9780814215746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}