Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination Book

	Introduction : the spectral turn	3
1	Uncanny afflictions : spectral evidence and the Puritan crisis of subjectivity	18
2	Friendly ghosts : celebrations of the living dead in early New England	40
3	Can such things be? : Ambrose Bierce, the "dead mother," and other American traumas	57
4	Living for the other world : Sarah Orne Jewett as a religious writer	78
5	The politics of heaven : the ghost dance, The gates ajar, and Captain Stormfield	101
6	Technologies of vision : spiritualism and science in nineteenth-century America	124
7	Flight from haunting : psychogenic fugue and nineteenth-century American imagination	141
8	The girl in the library : Edith Wharton's "The eyes" and American Gothic tradition	157
9	"Commitment to doubleness" : U.S. literary magic realism and the postmodern	169
10	Melodramatic specters : cinema and The sixth sense	185
11	Stephen King's vintage ghost-cars: a modern-day haunting	207
12	Ghosting HIV/AIDS : haunting words and apparitional bodies in Michaelle Cliff's "Bodies of water"	221
13	Salem's ghosts and the cultural capital of witches	244