LEADER 05455nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910780971203321 005 20230120061600.0 010 $a0-8232-4104-1 010 $a1-282-69893-1 010 $a9786612698934 010 $a0-8232-3820-2 010 $a0-8232-2987-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823238200 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008088 035 $a(MH)011577673-7 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035336 035 $a(OCoLC)647876385 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14953 035 $a(DE-B1597)554947 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823238200 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239440 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365058 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269893 035 $a(OCoLC)923763146 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768890 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239440 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476700 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008088 100 $a20080417d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aScare tactics$b[electronic resource] $esupernatural fiction by American women /$fJeffrey Andrew Weinstock 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 228 p. ) 311 $a0-8232-7188-9 311 $a0-8232-2985-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aScare 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 authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary tradition, but who are not recognized today for their contributions.Between the end of the Civil War and roughly 1930, hundreds of uncanny tales were published by women in the periodical press and in books. These include stories by familiar figures such as Edith Wharton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as by authors almost wholly unknown to twenty-first-century readers, such as Josephine Dodge Bacon, Alice Brown, Emma Frances Dawson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford. Focusing on this tradition of female writing offers a corrective to the prevailing belief within American literary scholarship that the uncanny tale, exemplified by the literary productions of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, was displaced after the Civil War by literary realism. Beyond the simple existence of an unacknowledged tradition of uncanny literature by women, Scare Tactics makes a strong case that this body of literature should be read as a specifically feminist literary tradition. Especially intriguing, Weinstock demonstrates, is that women authors repeatedly used Gothic conventions to express discontentment with circumscribed roles for women creating types of political intervention connected to the broader sphere of women's rights activism. Paying attention to these overlooked authors helps us better understand not only the literary marketplace of their time, but also more familiar American Gothicists from Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson to Stephen King. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSupernatural in literature 606 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aGhost stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHorror tales, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOccultism in literature 610 $aAmerican women. 610 $afeminist. 610 $agothic. 610 $aliterary tradition. 610 $asupernatural writing. 610 $auncanny tale. 610 $awomen's rights. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSupernatural in literature. 615 0$aGothic revival (Literature) 615 0$aGhost stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHorror tales, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOccultism in literature. 676 $a813/.087209 700 $aWeinstock$b Jeffrey Andrew$01091678 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780971203321 996 $aScare tactics$93830887 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress