American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Fitted to a Frame’: Picturing the Gothic Female Body

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

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

Chapter 5 ‘Solemnest of Industries’: Wilkins’ ‘The Southwest Chamber’ and Memorial Culture

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

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