The national uncanny : Indian ghosts and American subjects / / Renée L. Bergland
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| Autore: |
Bergland Renée L. <1963->
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| Titolo: |
The national uncanny : Indian ghosts and American subjects / / Renée L. Bergland
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| Pubblicazione: | Hanover, New Hampshire : , : University Press of New England, , [2000] |
| ©2000 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/3520397 |
| Soggetto topico: | Supernatural in literature |
| Indians in literature | |
| Frontier and pioneer life in literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The national uncanny |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824192303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas