Possessions
Subtitle: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: October 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674011618
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ghosts & poltergeists; Literary studies: general; Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.); Ghosts in literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Supernatural; New Age; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; American - General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Ghosts; Haunted places; Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and; Social life and customs
Description: "The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts-- the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories." -- dust jacket flap.