| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lynette Carpenter & Wendy K. Kolmar -- Living ghosts and women's religion in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs / Priscilla Leder -- The "Faces of children that had never been" : ghost stories by Mary Wilkins Freeman / Beth Wynne Fisken -- The ghostly double behind the wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper" / E. Suzanne Owens -- Edith Wharton's haunted fiction : "The lady's maid's bell" and The House of Mirth / |
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Kathy A. Fedorko -- Spook or spinster? Edith Wharton's "Miss Mary Pask" / Jennice G. Thomas -- Visions of female community in Ellen Glasgow's ghost stories / Lynette Carpenter -- In spite of the Klan : ghosts in the fiction of Black women writers / Geraldine Smith-Wright -- "Whose hand was I holding?" : familial and sexual politics in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House / Tricia Lootens -- Ghosts as Chinese-American constructs in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman |
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Warrior / Gayle K. Fujita Sato -- The ghost story as Aggada : Cynthia Ozick's "The pagan rabbi" and Sheindel's Scar / Ruth Rosenberg -- "A story to pass on" : ghosts and the significance of history in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Barbara Hill Rigney -- "Dialectics of connectedness" : supernatural elements in novels by Bambara, Cisneros, Grahn, and Erdich / Wendy K. Kolmar. |
| Subject |
Ghost stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Feminist fiction -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Carpenter, Lynette, 1951-
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Kolmar, Wendy K., 1950-
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| ISBN |
0870496883 cloth alk. pa. $26.50 |
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