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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788285403321

Autore

Bergland Renée L. <1963->

Titolo

The national uncanny : Indian ghosts and American subjects / / Renée L. Bergland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, New Hampshire : , : University Press of New England, , [2000]

©2000

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas

Disciplina

810.9/3520397

Soggetti

Supernatural in literature

Indians in literature

Frontier and pioneer life in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

A unique look at Native American ghosts and US literature.