American Hauntings

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Exploration of the cultural, psychological, social, and political dynamics of haunting in American literature, ranging from the early national period to the late twentieth century, looking at ghost stories as well as other instances of supernatural, emotional, or mental intervention. Authors include Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Stephen King.