Scare tactics
Subtitle: supernatural fiction by American women
By: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780823229857
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The unacknowledged tradition; title: The ghost in the parlor: Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton; title: Queer haunting spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie; title: Ghosts of progress: Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton; title: Familial ghosts: Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: Ghosts of desire: Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull; title: Ghostly returns: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Dodge Bacon; title: The decline of the American female gothic.