Haints American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions / [electronic resource] :
Arthur Redding.
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.
- xii, 149 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A land without ghosts -- Haints and nation: ghosts and the narrative of national identity -- Memory, race, ethnicity, and violence -- Abandoning hope in American fiction: Catalogs of gothic catastrophe -- Conclusion: American innocence.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Ghost stories, American--History and criticism. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism. Ghosts in literature. Collective memory in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature.