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Ghostly communion : cross-cultural spiritualism in nineteenth-century American literature
Published by Dartmouth College Press, Hanover, N.H.
ISBN 9781584654322
Bib Id 449692
Copyright 2004
Description xxxii, 190 p. ; 24 cm.
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cam a22 a 4500
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2004-10718
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1584654325 (alk. paper)
1584654333 (pbk.) : $24.95
9781584654322
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Ghostly communion : cross-cultural spiritualism in nineteenth-century American literature
Copyright Date
2004
Description
xxxii, 190 p. ; 24 cm.
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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.
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