Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299199541
• ISBN13: 9780299199548
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"