Scare tactics : supernatural fiction by American women

Introduction: The unacknowledged tradition -- The ghost in the parlor : Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton -- Queer haunting spaces : Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie -- Ghosts of progress : Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton -- Familial ghosts : Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull -- Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic.

Supernatural fiction writers [electronic resource] : contemporary fantasy and horror

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Mechanism and Mysticism : the Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiser

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Impact of Evolutionary Thought -- 2. The Evolutionary Universe in Fiction -- 3. The Lure of Mechanistic Science -- 4. Science and the Supernatural -- 5. Science as a Religious Quest -- 6. From Mechanism to Mysticism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

The Edinburgh companion to Scottish women's writing

Scottish women's writing

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.

Spirituality / Gaelic poetry and song / Orality and the ballad tradition / Enlightenment culture / Domenestic fiction / Janet Hamilton: working-class memoirist and commentator / Private writing / Margaret Oliphant and the periodical press / Writing the supernatural / Interwar literature / Writing spaces / Experiment and nation in the 1960s / Genre fiction / Twentieth-century poetry / Contemporary fiction

Rethinking ghosts in world religions

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Studies in the history of religions ;

Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts / Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature / Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato / The Roman manes : the dead as gods / The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views / Ghosts of the European Enlightenment / Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle / The cult of Vetāla and Tantric fantasy / The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) / Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance / Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives

DisPossession : haunting in Canadian fiction

In the presence of mystery : modernist fiction and the occult

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Romance Languages. North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ;

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Globalgothic.

International Gothic MUP

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Haunted Presence : the Numinous in Gothic Fiction.

In the presence of mystery : modernist fiction and the occult

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ;

Gothicka : vampire heroes, human gods, and the new supernatural