Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 | Indian Ghosts and American Subjects -- Part One: Possession and Dispossession -- 2 | Summoning the Invisible World: From the Jeremiad to the Phantasmagoria -- 3 | The Haunted American Enlightenment -- 4 | "The Diseased State of the Public Mind": Brown, Irving, and Woodworth -- Part Two: Erotic Politics -- 5 | Contesting the Frontier Romance: Child and Cooper -- 6 | The Phantom Lovers of Hobomok -- 7 | Cooper's Gaze -- Part Three: Race, History, Nation -- 8 | William Apess and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 9 | William Apess's "Tale of Blood" -- 10 | Haunted Hawthorne -- 11 | Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
A unique look at Native American ghosts and US literature.
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