TY - BOOK AU - Weinstock,Jeffrey Andrew ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Scare tactics: supernatural fiction by American women AV - PS374.W6 W38 2008 U1 - 813/.087209 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - American fiction KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Supernatural in literature KW - Gothic revival (Literature) KW - United States KW - Ghost stories, American KW - Horror tales, American KW - Occultism in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3239440 ER -