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The national uncanny : Indian ghosts and American subjects / Renée L. Bergland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bergland, Renée L., 1963- author.
- Series:
- Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Supernatural in literature.
- Indians in literature.
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, New Hampshire : University Press of New England, [2000]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A unique look at Native American ghosts and US literature.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 | Indian Ghosts and American Subjects; Part One: Possession and Dispossession; 2 | Summoning the Invisible World: From the Jeremiad to the Phantasmagoria; 3 | The Haunted American Enlightenment; 4 | "The Diseased State of the Public Mind": Brown, Irving, and Woodworth; Part Two: Erotic Politics; 5 | Contesting the Frontier Romance: Child and Cooper; 6 | The Phantom Lovers of Hobomok; 7 | Cooper's Gaze; Part Three: Race, History, Nation; 8 | William Apess and Nathaniel Hawthorne; 9 | William Apess's "Tale of Blood"; 10 | Haunted Hawthorne
- 11 | ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-188) and index.
- OCLC:
- 910282975
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