Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew.

Scare tactics supernatural fiction by American women / [electronic resource] : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2008. - vii, 228 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index.

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.


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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.


Electronic books.

PS374.W6 / W38 2008eb

813/.087209