Scare tactics : supernatural fiction by American women /

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Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of autho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Supernatural in literature.
Gothic revival (Literature) > United States.
Ghost stories, American > History and criticism.
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
Occultism in literature.
Surnaturel dans la littérature.
Littérature frénétique > États-Unis.
Histoires de fantômes américaines > Histoire et critique.
Récits d'horreur américains > Histoire et critique.
Occultisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction > Women authors.
Ghost stories, American.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror tales, American.
Frauenliteratur
Schauererzählung
Amerikanska romaner > kvinnliga författare > historia.
Det övernaturliga i litteraturen.
Amerikanska skräckromaner > historia.
Ockultism i litteraturen.
United States.
USA
USA.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The unacknowledged tradition
  • The ghost in the parlor : Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton
  • Queer haunting spaces : Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie
  • Ghosts of progress : Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton
  • Familial ghosts : Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull
  • Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon
  • Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic.

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