American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

1. Introduction
Dara Downey

2. ‘Fitted to a Frame’: Picturing the Gothic Female Body
Dara Downey

3. ‘Handled with a Chain’: Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and the Dangers of the Arabesque
Dara Downey

4. ‘Dancing Like a Bomb Abroad’: Dawson’s ‘An Itinerant House’ and the Haunting Cityscape
Dara Downey

5. ‘Solemnest of Industries’: Wilkins’ ‘The Southwest Chamber’ and Memorial Culture
Dara Downey

6. ‘Space Stares All Around’: Peattie’s ‘The House That Was Not’ and the (Un)Haunted Landscape
Dara Downey

7. ‘My Labor and My Leisure Too’: Wynne’s ‘The Little Room’ and Commodity Culture
Dara Downey

8. Afterword
Dara Downey

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Cultural History, Literary Theory, Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Media Studies