Spectral America - Phantoms and the National Imagination

Informationen zum Autor JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK is Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the author or editor of six previous books. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK is Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the author or editor of six previous books.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jack P Hailman, Jack P. Hailman, University of Wisconsin Press, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
• Mitarbeit: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2004
• EAN: 9780299199500
• ISBN: 978-0-299-19950-0
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Ray and Pat Browne Books (Hard; Ray and Pat Browne Books (Hard; Ray and Pat Browne Book
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Ratgeber > Spiritualität > Altes Wissen, Alte Kulturen; Reise > Reiseführer > Nord- und Mittelamerika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika