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- catalog abstract ""From the Puritans' conviction that a thousand preternatural beings appear every day before our eyes, to today's resurgence of spirits in fiction and film, the culture of the United States has been obsessed with ghosts. In each generation, these phantoms in popular culture reflect human anxieties about religion, science, politics, and social issues. Spectral America asserts that ghosts, whether in oral tradition, literature, or such modern forms as cinema have always been constructions embedded in specific historical contexts and invoked for explicit purposes, often political in nature. The essays address the role of "spectral evidence" during the Salem witch trials, the Puritan belief in good spirits, the convergence of American Spiritualism and technological development in the nineteenth century, the use of the supernatural as a tool of political critique in twentieth-century magic realism, and the "ghosting" of persons living with AIDS. They also discuss ghostly themes in the work of Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Gloria Naylor, and Stephen King."--Book cover.".
- catalog contributor b13324172.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""From the Puritans' conviction that a thousand preternatural beings appear every day before our eyes, to today's resurgence of spirits in fiction and film, the culture of the United States has been obsessed with ghosts. In each generation, these phantoms in popular culture reflect human anxieties about religion, science, politics, and social issues. Spectral America asserts that ghosts, whether in oral tradition, literature, or such modern forms as cinema have always been constructions embedded in specific historical contexts and invoked for explicit purposes, often political in nature. The essays address the role of "spectral evidence" during the Salem witch trials, the Puritan belief in good spirits, the convergence of American Spiritualism and technological development in the nineteenth century, the use of the supernatural as a tool of political critique in twentieth-century magic realism, and the "ghosting" of persons living with AIDS. They also discuss ghostly themes in the work of Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Gloria Naylor, and Stephen King."--Book cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Uncanny afflictions: spectral evidence and the Puritan crisis of subjectivity / Alison Tracy -- Friendly ghosts: celebrations of the living dead in early New England / Jeffrey Hammond -- Can such things be? Ambrose Bierce, the "Dead mother" and other American traumas / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Living for the other world: Sarah Orne Jewett as a religious writer / Terry Heller -- The politics of heaven: the ghost dance, the gates ajar, Captain Stormfield / John J. Kucich -- Technologies of vision: spiritualism and science in nineteenth-century America / Sheri Weinstein -- Flight from haunting: psychogenic fugue and nineteenth-century American imagination / Jessica Catherine Lieberman -- The girl in the library: Edith Wharton's "The eyes" and American gothic traditions / Charles L. Crow -- "Commitment to Doubleness": U.S. literary magic realism and the postmodern / Elizabeth T. Hayes -- Melodramatic specters: cinema and The Sixth Sense / Katherine A. Fowkes -- Stephen King's vintage ghost-cars: a modern-day haunting / Mary Findley -- Ghosting HIV/AIDS: haunting words and apparitional bodies in Michelle Cliff's "Bodies of water" / Diana M. Davidson -- Salem's ghosts and the cultural capital of witches / Bridget M. Marshall.".
- catalog extent "vii, 282 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Spectral America.".
- catalog identifier "0299199509 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0299199541 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Spectral America.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press,".
- catalog relation "Spectral America.".
- catalog subject "813/.0873309 22".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Death in literature.".
- catalog subject "Ghost stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Ghosts in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.G45 S64 2004".
- catalog subject "Spiritualism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Supernatural in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Uncanny afflictions: spectral evidence and the Puritan crisis of subjectivity / Alison Tracy -- Friendly ghosts: celebrations of the living dead in early New England / Jeffrey Hammond -- Can such things be? Ambrose Bierce, the "Dead mother" and other American traumas / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Living for the other world: Sarah Orne Jewett as a religious writer / Terry Heller -- The politics of heaven: the ghost dance, the gates ajar, Captain Stormfield / John J. Kucich -- Technologies of vision: spiritualism and science in nineteenth-century America / Sheri Weinstein -- Flight from haunting: psychogenic fugue and nineteenth-century American imagination / Jessica Catherine Lieberman -- The girl in the library: Edith Wharton's "The eyes" and American gothic traditions / Charles L. Crow -- "Commitment to Doubleness": U.S. literary magic realism and the postmodern / Elizabeth T. Hayes -- Melodramatic specters: cinema and The Sixth Sense / Katherine A. Fowkes -- Stephen King's vintage ghost-cars: a modern-day haunting / Mary Findley -- Ghosting HIV/AIDS: haunting words and apparitional bodies in Michelle Cliff's "Bodies of water" / Diana M. Davidson -- Salem's ghosts and the cultural capital of witches / Bridget M. Marshall.".
- catalog title "Spectral America : phantoms and the national imagination / edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".