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Spectral America : phantoms and the national imagination
- Title
- Spectral America : phantoms and the national imagination / edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
- Publication
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press, c2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew.
- Description
- vii, 282 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Ray and Pat Browne book"--P. facing t.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Uncanny afflictions: spectral evidence and the Puritan crisis of subjectivity / Alison Tracy -- Friendly ghosts: celebrations of the living dead in early New England / Jeffrey Hammond -- Can such things be? Ambrose Bierce, the "Dead mother" and other American traumas / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Living for the other world: Sarah Orne Jewett as a religious writer / Terry Heller -- The politics of heaven: the ghost dance, The gates ajar, and Captain Stormfield / John J. Kucich -- Technologies of vision: spiritualism and science in nineteenth-century America / Sheri Weinstein -- Flight from haunting: psychogenic fugue and nineteenth-century American imagination / Jessica Catherine Lieberman -- The girl in the library: Edith Wharton's "The eyes" and American gothic traditions / Charles L. Crow -- "Commitment to Doubleness": U.S. literary magic realism and the postmodern / Elizabeth T. Hayes -- Melodramatic specters: cinema and The Sixth Sense / Katherine A. Fowkes -- Stephen King's vintage ghost-cars: a modern-day haunting / Mary Findley -- Ghosting HIV/AIDS: haunting words and apparitional bodies in Michelle Cliff's "Bodies of water" / Diana M. Davidson -- Salem's ghosts and the cultural capital of witches / Bridget M. Marshall.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-12581
- ISBN
- 0299199509 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0299199541 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003021170
- OCLC
- 53131675
- Title
- Spectral America : phantoms and the national imagination / edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
- Imprint
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-12581