The national uncanny : Indian ghosts and American subjects /

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Although spectral Indians appear with startling frequency in US literary works, until now the implications of describing them as ghosts have not been thoroughly investigated. In the first years of nationhood, Philip Freneau and Sarah Wentworth Morton peopled their works with Indian phantoms, as did...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bergland, Renée L., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College : University Press of New England, ©2000.
Colección:Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas.
Temas:
1800-1999
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Ghost stories, American > History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Supernatural in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Histoires de fantômes américaines > Histoire et critique.
Surnaturel dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Ghost stories, American
Indians in literature
Supernatural in literature
Literatur
Gespenstergeschichte
USA
Indianer <Motiv>
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Indian ghosts and American subjects
  • pt. 1. Possession and dispossession
  • 2. Summoning the invisible world: from the Jeremiad to the Phantasmagoria
  • 3. The haunted American enlightenment
  • 4. "The diseased state of the public mind": Brown, Irving, and Woodworth
  • pt. 2. Erotic politics
  • 5. Contesting the frontier romance: Child and Cooper
  • 6. The phantom lovers of Hobomok
  • 7. Cooper's gaze
  • pt. 3. Race, history, nation
  • 8. William Apess and Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 9. William Apess's "Tale of blood"
  • 10. Haunted Hawthorne
  • 11. Conclusion.

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