Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

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.
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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.


Electronic books.

PS374.G45 / R43 2011eb

813/.0873309