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Author:

Kucich, John.

Title:

Ghostly communion : cross-cultural spiritualism in nineteenth-century American literature / John J. Kucich.

Publisher:

Dartmouth College Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xxxii, 190 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Spiritualism in literature.
Spiritualism--United States--History--19th century.
Literature and spiritualism--United States.
Intercultural communication in literature.
Occultism in literature.
Culture in literature.
Ghosts in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the Pueblo revolt, the Salem witchcraft trials, and cross-cultural spiritualism -- Around Rochester : spiritualism, reform, and Harriet Jacobs's incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Public spirits : spiritualism in American periodicals, 1848/1861 -- The politics of heaven : the ghost dance, the gates ajar, and Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven -- Spirits in the contact zone : spiritualism and local color writing -- Spirit nation : spiritualism and national ideology in Henry James's The Bostonians and Pauline Hopkins's Of one blood -- Conclusion : the poetics and politics of spiritualism.

Series:

Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas

ISBN:

9781584654339 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1584654333 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781584654322 (alk. paper)
1584654325 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55131394

LCCN:

2004010718

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)