Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women, with a New Preface

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Book Overview

Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary tradition, but who are not recognized today for their contributions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823229858
• ISBN13: 9780823229857
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"