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Author:

Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

Title:

Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions / Arthur Redding.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 149 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

081738572X (electronic)
9780817385729 (electronic)
0817317465 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817317461 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)702941767

LCCN:

2011005992

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)