American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

D. Downey

earliest edition we have, 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 hardcover 217 pages

"Dara Downey explores how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales that range from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, she offers a new perspective on an old genre. Rather than seeing the spectres that stalk the pages of women's writing in Gilded-Ag...

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American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age edition · 2014 · Palgrave Macmillan Limited · 9781137323989
American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age paperback · 2014 · Palgrave Macmillan · 217 pages · 9781349458899
American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age hardcover · 2014 · Palgrave Macmillan · 217 pages · 9781137323972

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