Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature

by Kathleen Brogan

Book Overview

Ghost stories in various forms have been a part of popular literature for centuries, from Shakespeare to Dickens to Faulkner. Over the past twenty-five years, a resurgence of haunting plots has occurred in American literature. In Cultural Haunting, Kathleen Brogan makes the case that this recent preoccupation with ghosts stems not from a lingering interest in Gothic themes but instead from a whole new genre in American literature that she calls "the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813918278
• ISBN13: 9780813918273
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher