Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

In an admirable attempt to trace the long influence of such ideas, Kucich offers novel readings of Jacobs's autobiography, midnineteenth-century American magazines, and the novels of Mark Twain, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Charles W. Chesnutt, arguing that spiritualism played a significant rol...

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Published in:The Journal of American History 2006, Vol.93 (1), p.215-215
Main Author: Cox, Robert S.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell (1858-1932)
Cross cultural studies
Culture
Ghosts
Literary criticism
Literature
Nonfiction
Novels
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
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Summary:In an admirable attempt to trace the long influence of such ideas, Kucich offers novel readings of Jacobs's autobiography, midnineteenth-century American magazines, and the novels of Mark Twain, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Charles W. Chesnutt, arguing that spiritualism played a significant role in mediating material conflicts within and between cultures and that such struggles were "imbricated within a wider field of literary and cultural production" (p. xiii).
ISSN:0021-8723
1945-2314
1936-0967
DOI:10.2307/4486119