Scare tactics [[electronic resource] ] : supernatural fiction by American women / / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock |
Autore | Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 228 p. ) |
Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
Soggetto non controllato |
American women
feminist gothic literary tradition supernatural writing uncanny tale women's rights |
ISBN |
0-8232-4104-1
1-282-69893-1 9786612698934 0-8232-3820-2 0-8232-2987-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822964203321 |
Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew | ||
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 | ||
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