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Bergland Renée L. <1963-> |
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Titolo |
The national uncanny : Indian ghosts and American subjects / / Renée L. Bergland |
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Hanover, New Hampshire : , : University Press of New England, , [2000] |
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©2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Supernatural in literature |
Indians in literature |
Frontier and pioneer life in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-188) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 | Indian Ghosts and American Subjects; Part One: 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; Part Two: Erotic Politics; 5 | Contesting the Frontier Romance: Child and Cooper; 6 | The Phantom Lovers of Hobomok; 7 | Cooper's Gaze; Part Three: Race, History, Nation; 8 | William Apess and Nathaniel Hawthorne; 9 | William Apess's "Tale of Blood"; 10 | Haunted Hawthorne |
11 | ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A unique look at Native American ghosts and US literature. |
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