Scare tactics : supernatural fiction by American women / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

Author/creator Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
Descriptionvii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
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.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index.
LCCN 2008017450
ISBN0823229858 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823229857 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS 374.W6 W38 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold