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Hangsaman is a 1951 gothic novel by American author Shirley Jackson. The second of Jackson's published novels, Hangsaman is a bildungsroman centering on lonely college freshman Natalie Waite, who descends into madness after enrolling in a liberal arts college.
Hangsaman focuses on Natalie Waite, a troubling young woman whose intolerance towards others makes her retreat into a series of disturbing fantasies. The narrative chronicles Natalie’s attempts to navigate the murky waters of adulthood.
Mar 31, 2021 · This analysis of Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson’s chilling and thought-provoking 1951 novel, is excerpted from Girls in Bloom: Coming of Age in the Mid-20th Century Woman’s Novel by Francis Booth, reprinted by permission.
Aug 8, 2013 · Jackson’s Wikipedia entry suggests that she based Hangsaman on a locally notorious missing-persons case, a Bennington student who disappeared into the dark woods in 1946,...
Jul 12, 2013 · Hangsaman is a crash and burn example of free indirect discourse—or what might be better called infected narration—which combines direct discourse (a character’s direct speech) and indirect discourse, such as a narrator’s commentary. Free indirect discourse—a mainstay of so much experimental modernist fiction—is the radical blending ...
Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance. Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape...
Penguin Books Limited, Dec 5, 2013 - Fiction - 240 pages. Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life,...
