Ghostly communion
Subtitle: cross-cultural spiritualism in nineteenth-century American literature
By: John J. Kucich.
Series: Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Spiritualism in literature; Spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literature and spiritualism -- United States; Intercultural communication in literature; Occultism in literature; Culture in literature; Ghosts in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Pueblo revolt, the Salem witchcraft trials, and cross-cultural spiritualism; title: Around Rochester : spiritualism, reform, and Harriet Jacobs's incidents in the life of a slave girl; title: Public spirits : spiritualism in American periodicals, 1848/1861; title: The politics of heaven : the ghost dance, the gates ajar, and Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven; title: Spirits in the contact zone : spiritualism and local color writing; title: Spirit nation : spiritualism and national ideology in Henry James's The Bostonians and Pauline Hopkins's Of one blood; title: Conclusion : the poetics and politics of spiritualism.