02383nam a2200421 a 4500 ebr10365058 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080417s2008 nyu sb 001 0 eng 2008017450 GBA8B7525 bnb 014772721 Uk 0823229858 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780823229857 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)647876385 n-us--- PS374.W6 W38 2008eb 813/.087209 22 Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Scare tactics [electronic resource] : supernatural fiction by American women / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. 1st ed. New York : Fordham University Press, 2008. vii, 228 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index. Introduction: The unacknowledged tradition -- The ghost in the parlor : Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton -- Queer haunting spaces : Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie -- Ghosts of progress : Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton -- Familial ghosts : Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull -- Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. American fiction Women authors History and criticism. Supernatural in literature. Gothic revival (Literature) United States. Ghost stories, American History and criticism. Horror tales, American History and criticism. Occultism in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10365058 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 218864 218864