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American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age


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Dara Downey explores how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales that range from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, she offers a new perspective on an old genre. Rather than seeing the spectres that stalk the pages of women's writing in Gilded-Age America as mere hallucinations or signs of mental disturbance, Downey examines the unusual motif of haunted houses without ghosts. Rarely appearing as ghosts, the dead women in the tales studied here hide away in the patters of furniture and wallpaper, offering a radical critique of the male gaze that reduced female bodies to alluring objects. Covering murderous nightcaps, haunted boarding houses and spectral china closets, it allows the object matter of the ghost story to, almost literally, come out of the closet.


About the Author: Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781137323972
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 145 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1137323973
  • Publisher Date: 24 Sep 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
  • Weight: 403 gr


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