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Book Literary Haunts   Homes

Download or read book Literary Haunts Homes written by Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary haunts   homes

Download or read book Literary haunts homes written by Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Haunts and Homes

Download or read book Literary Haunts and Homes written by Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Literary Haunts and Homes: American Authors Most of the illustrations are reproduced from new and heretofore unpublished photographs; the View of the Poe cottage, made just prior to its removal, is here used by the kind permission of Messrs. Harper Brothers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Literary Haunts   Homes  American Authors

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  • Author : Wolfe Theodore Frelinghuysen 1847-1915
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2013-01-28
  • ISBN : 9781313338776
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Literary Haunts Homes American Authors written by Wolfe Theodore Frelinghuysen 1847-1915 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book American Nightmares

Download or read book American Nightmares written by Dale Bailey and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. “The House of Usher” and its literary progeny have not lacked for tenants in the century and a half since: writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Stephen King have taken rooms in the haunted houses of American fiction. Dale Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its origins in English gothic fiction to the paperback potboilers of the present, highlighting the unique significance of the house in the domestic, economic, and social ideologies of our nation. The author concludes that the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream.

Book Literary Shrines

Download or read book Literary Shrines written by Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homes and Haunts

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  • Author : Alison Booth
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0198759096
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Homes and Haunts written by Alison Booth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries" associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontes, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.

Book Literary Haunts and Homes

Download or read book Literary Haunts and Homes written by Theodore F. Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature. The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with an opportunity to enjoy and study these iconic literary works, many of which were written during a period of remarkable creativity.

Book Haunted Property

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  • Author : Sarah Gilbreath Ford
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2020-08-25
  • ISBN : 1496829719
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Haunted Property written by Sarah Gilbreath Ford and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation’s history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery’s perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession.

Book The Woman in Black

Download or read book The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a pale young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose.

Book Ghost Writers

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  • Author : Sam Baltrusis
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2019-09-30
  • ISBN : 1493043692
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Ghost Writers written by Sam Baltrusis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers have a reputation of being tortured souls languishing among the living. Does the unrest continue in the afterlife? Sam Baltrusis, author of Wicked Salem: Exploring Lingering Lore andLegends, revisits the haunts associated with America’s most beloved writers of ghost stories, including Edgar Allan Poe’s enduring legacy in New York City to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s indelible imprint at the House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts. Armed with the ghost lore and legends associated with these unforgettable literary icons, Baltrusis breathes new life into the long departed.

Book Literary Haunts   Homes

Download or read book Literary Haunts Homes written by Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary Haunted House

Download or read book The Literary Haunted House written by Rebecca Janicker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunted house of American fiction is an iconic union of setting and theme with an enduring presence in popular culture that traces its lineage to the early English Gothic novels. Blurring the boundaries between past and present, the living and the dead, the haunted house--synonymous with the dark side of domesticity--challenges accepted notions of reality and wields a special power over the reader's imagination. Focusing on the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson and Stephen King, this critical work offers a fresh perspective on one of the most popular motifs in American fiction. Case studies demonstrate how these authors have kept the past alive while highlighting the complexities of modern society, using their ghostly tales to celebrate and challenge 20th century American history and culture.

Book Ghosts in American Houses

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  • Author : James Reynolds
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-12
  • ISBN : 9781258226800
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Ghosts in American Houses written by James Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Shrines

Download or read book Literary Shrines written by Dr. Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural Haunting

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  • Author : Kathleen Brogan
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780813918273
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Cultural Haunting written by Kathleen Brogan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Kathleen Brogan makes the case that the recent preoccupation with ghosts stems not from a lingering interest in Gothic themes, but instead from a whole new genre in American literature that she calls 'the story of cultural haunting'.

Book Homes and Haunts

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  • Author : Alison Booth
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-09-09
  • ISBN : 0191076880
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Homes and Haunts written by Alison Booth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontës, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.