American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age [electronic resource] /
Downey, D.author.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyrights; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Fitted to a Frame': Picturing theGothic Female Body; 2 'Handled with a Chain': Gilman's'The Yellow Wall-Paper' and theDangers of the Arabesque; 3 'Dancing Like a Bomb Abroad':Dawson's 'An Itinerant House'and the Haunting Cityscape; 4 'Solemnest of Industries': Wilkins''The Southwest Chamber' andMemorial Culture; 5 'Space Stares All Around': Peattie's'The House That Was Not' andthe (Un)Haunted Landscape; 6 'My Labor and My Leisure Too':Wynne's 'The Little Room' andCommodity Culture; Afterword; Notes
Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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America-Literatures.
Civilization-History.
Literature-Philosophy.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Communication.
North American Literature.
Cultural History.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Media Studies.