Possessions - The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley

Informationen zum Autor Judith Richardson is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Stanford University. Klappentext belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Zusammenfassung The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is full of ghosts—ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. This book asks why this region became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how the hauntings came to operate as a form of social memory.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Richardson, Richardson Judith
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9780674018525
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01852-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective, Literary studies: general, Sociology & anthropology, Ghosts and poltergeists, US Northeast