Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions.
"In "Haints," Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage. a Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting w...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2011
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Series: | 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.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |