Scare tactics : supernatural fiction by American women / / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 228 p. |
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Table of 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.