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| Title | : | Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926 (1167) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.11 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558490566 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
The volume is prefaced by editor Lundie's long and informative Introduction, which divides the stories thematically into five major categories: marriage, motherhood, sexual rivalry, madness, and widowhood or separation. Hull's ``Clay-Shuttered Doors,'' Mary E. Comer's ``The Little Gray Ghost'' and Josephine Daskam Bacon's ``The Gospel''). All rights reserved.. To be skimmed, then, rather than read straight through, but nevertheless a collection that fills long-standing gaps in the fields of both supernatural fiction and women's studies. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. What keeps this from being a really superior anthology of its kind is the overfamiliarity of some of its contents (Edith Wharton's ``The Lady's Maid's Bell,'' Ellen Glasgow's ``The Past,'' Helen R. Lundie makes insupportable claims for such work as Mary Heaton Vorse's overheated tale about a young w
Their evocative works provide an invaluable resource for insights into women's writing and lives.Originally published in popular magazines, the twenty-two stories in this collection are set in all corners of the United States and were written by a range of authors known and unknown, including Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston. Whether depicting a servant who helps save the reputation of her master's dead first wife, a ghostly mother who haunts a stranger until he agrees to adopt her orphaned daughter, or a ghost who revisits her beloved
"For scholars of the American ghost story" according to ealovitt. This collection of 22 ghost stories by American women (1872 - 1926) is uneven, and most of the really good stories have been anthologized elsewhere. The need for stories that fit an overall theme (feminist, turn-of-the-century American supernatural literature) caused some stories to be included, that might not have otherwise passed muster. According to the editor, these stories "pr. Collaborators on the Creation of a Genre KC Redding-Gonzalez This is an important work for students of the American Ghost Story So many short works were done in terminal publications like newspapers and magazines that they risk being forgotten and are often overlooked. The very bones of this genre are buried in the most obscure of places. Fortunately, collections like this are raising some of the best of the genre -- salvaged from those very
. Lundie is an independent scholar who lives in Lambertville, New Jersey. Catherine A
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