Haunting the house of fiction : feminist perspectives on ghost stories by American women

Introduction / Lynette Carpenter & Wendy K. Kolmar

Living ghosts and women's religion in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs / Priscilla Leder

The "Faces of children that had never been" : ghost stories by Mary Wilkins Freeman / Beth Wynne Fisken

The ghostly double behind the wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper" / E. Suzanne Owens

Edith Wharton's haunted fiction : "The lady's maid's bell" and The House of Mirth / Kathy A. Fedorko

Spook or spinster? Edith Wharton's "Miss Mary Pask" / Jennice G. Thomas

Visions of female community in Ellen Glasgow's ghost stories / Lynette Carpenter

In spite of the Klan : ghosts in the fiction of Black women writers / Geraldine Smith-Wright

"Whose hand was I holding?" : familial and sexual politics in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House / Tricia Lootens

Ghosts as Chinese-American constructs in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Gayle K. Fujita Sato

The ghost story as Aggada : Cynthia Ozick's "The pagan rabbi" and Sheindel's Scar / Ruth Rosenberg

"A story to pass on" : ghosts and the significance of history in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Barbara Hill Rigney

"Dialectics of connectedness" : supernatural elements in novels by Bambara, Cisneros, Grahn, and Erdich / Wendy K. Kolmar