| Title:
|
SPECTRAL AMERICA
PHANTOMS AND THE NATIONAL IMAGINATION |
| By: |
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£52.00 |
| Our price: |
£46.80 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£5.20 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0299199509 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299199500 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 April, 2003 |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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 obsessed with ghosts. In each generation, these phantoms in popular culture reflect human anxieties about religion, science, politics, and social issues. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |