Cover
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 | Indian Ghosts and American Subjects
Part One: Possession and Dispossession
2 | Summoning the Invisible World: From the Jeremiad to the Phantasmagoria
3 | The Haunted American Enlightenment
4 | “The Diseased State of the Public Mind”: Brown, Irving, and Woodworth
Part Two: Erotic Politics
5 | Contesting the Frontier Romance: Child and Cooper
6 | The Phantom Lovers of Hobomok
7 | Cooper’s Gaze
Part Three: Race, History, Nation
8 | William Apess and Nathaniel Hawthorne
9 | William Apess’s “Tale of Blood”
10 | Haunted Hawthorne
11 | Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index