Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. <br/><br/>
Scare tactics  supernatural fiction by American women /  [electronic resource] : 
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Fordham University Press,  2008. 
 - vii, 228 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA8B7525  bnb 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Supernatural in literature.<br/>Gothic revival (Literature)--United States.<br/>Ghost stories, American--History and criticism.<br/>Horror tales, American--History and criticism.<br/>Occultism in literature.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.W6  / W38 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.087209