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Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination (Ray and Pat Browne Books) - Softcover

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

 
9780299199548: Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination (Ray and Pat Browne Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299199541 ISBN 13: 9780299199548
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Synopsis

From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time. From the Puritans' conviction that a thousand preternatural beings appear every day before our eyes, to today's resurgence of spirits in fiction and film, the culture of the United States has been obsessed with ghosts. In each generation, these phantoms in popular culture reflect human anxieties about religion, science, politics, and social issues.

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About the Author

Jeffrey Weinstock is assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the editor of The Pedagogical Wallpaper and coeditor, with Sarah Lynn Higley, of Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and The Blair Witch Controversies.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0299199541
ISBN 13 
9780299199548
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
282