Scare Tactics : Supernatural Fiction by American Women.

Scare Tactics : Supernatural Fiction by American Women.

Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of autho...

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Main Author: Weinstock, Jeffrey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2008.
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.
American fiction > Women authors
Ghost stories, American
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror tales, American
Occultism in literature
Supernatural in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Unacknowledged Tradition; 1. The Ghost in the Parlor: Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton; 2. Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie; 3. Ghosts of Progress: Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton; 4. Familial Ghosts: Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
  • 5. Ghosts of Desire: Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull6. Ghostly Returns: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon; Coda The Decline of the American Female Gothic; Footnotes; Works Cited; Index.

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