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1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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"How comes the Hudson to this unique heritage?" -- Irving's web -- The colorful career of a ghost from Leeds -- Local characters -- Possessing high Tor mountain -- Epilogue: hauntings without end |
| Summary |
"The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts-- the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories."--Dust jacket flap |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-286) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Ghosts -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Haunted places -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Ghosts in literature.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Supernatural.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Ghosts
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Haunted places
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Ghosts in literature
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Manners and customs
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Geheimnisvolle Stätte
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Gespenstergeschichte
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Griezelverhalen.
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Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Social life and customs
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United States -- Hudson River Valley
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Hudson-River-Tal
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674042704 |
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0674042700 |
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9780674011618 |
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0674011619 |
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