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Introduction: The unacknowledged tradition

The ghost in the parlor : Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton

Queer haunting spaces : Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Ghosts of progress : Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton

Familial ghosts : Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull

Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon

Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic.

American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.

Gothic revival (Literature) > United States.

Ghost stories, American > History and criticism.

Horror tales, American > History and criticism.