· In his recent work of literary scholarship Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, Colin Dickey offers a series of close readings of oral and written ghost stories to shed insight on our national origins, our regional and historical . · In each chapter, Dickey spins riveting tales and then carefully unwinds these narratives, exposing the materials and motivations of their construction The most fascinating moments in Ghostland are Dickey's etymological musings and his many turns down unusual paths of American history. His discussion of the links between 19th-century Spiritualism, the early feminist movement Brand: Penguin Publishing Group. Brooklyn. “Dickey takes an erudite tour of haunted America and tells us repeatedly that the meaning of ghost stories lies not in what they claim about the occult but in what they inadvertently say about the anxieties and prejudices of the teller and the larger society/5().
In his recent work of literary scholarship Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, Colin Dickey offers a series of close readings of oral and written ghost stories to shed insight on our national origins, our regional and historical differences, and the contemporary state of our nation. Dickey here investigates not whether ghost. An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history. Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collecti. As the ill-gotten remnants of the past, the buildings that have borne witness to the sins of the fathers, the houses we inherit must be destroyed. If we want to truly be free of the past, we must first start by destroying our ancestral homes.". ― Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. 1 likes.
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places: Author: Colin Dickey: Publisher: Penguin, ISBN: , Length: pages: Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan. Brooklyn. “Dickey takes an erudite tour of haunted America and tells us repeatedly that the meaning of ghost stories lies not in what they claim about the occult but in what they inadvertently say about the anxieties and prejudices of the teller and the larger society. An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history. Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collecti.
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