Ghost-watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination
- ISBN-10
- 0823242145
- ISBN-13
- 9780823242146
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 225
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham Univ Press
- Author
- María del Pilar Blanco
Description
Ghost-watching American Modernity explores the intersections of haunting and space in nineteenth- and twentieth-century works from Spanish America and the US. In an intervention that will reconfigure the critical uses of haunting for scholars across different fields, Blanco advances ghost-watching as a method for rediscovering haunting on its own terms.
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