The Lottery Jackson, Shirley - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Criticism

Kosenko, Peter. "A Marxist/Feminist Reading of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery.'" New Orleans Review 12, No. 1 (Spring 1985): 27-32.

Investigates "The Lottery" from Marxist and feminist perspectives. This essay is included in CLC-60.

Oehlschlaeger, Fritz. "The Stoning of Mistress Hutchinson: Meaning and Context in 'The Lottery.'" Essays in Literature XV, No. 2 (Fall 1988): 259-65.

Examines the process of the lottery and argues that its "primary social consequence involves women turning over the control of their fertility to men." This excerpt is reprinted in CLC-60.

Williams, Richard H. "A Critique of the Sampling Plan Used in Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery.'" Journal of Modern Literature 7, No. 3 (September 1979): 543-44.

Contends that there is "a flaw in the sampling plan used to select the...

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