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Spectral
America "Ghosts are a booming industry, and this eclectic and engaging collection of studies, both literary and historical, addresses America's relationship to the spectral."—Lynette Carpenter, editor of Haunting the House of Fiction 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' belief in preternatural
beings to today's resurgence of spirits in fiction and film,
the culture of the United States has been obsessed with ghosts.
These essays contend that in each generation, these phantoms
in popular culture reflect human anxieties about religion, science,
politics, and social issues.
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