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Jeffrey Weinstock:
Publishing the book on
19th century women's
ghost stories
Literature
Assistant professor of American literature
Jeffrey Weinstock recently finished the
book, Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by
American Women As a Form of Social Protest.
It looks at ghost stories written by women
in the 19th century. “Through ghost stories,
women writers were addressing issues they
couldn’t deal with directly, like the
various ways in which women were
disenfranchised. The ghost is a natural
metaphor for something that is not seen or
heard, something that lives a
half-existence.”
What surprised
Weinstock
the most in his research?
“There was a large body of uncollected ghost
stories that had received no scrutiny.”
Weinstock’s other
macabre interests
Edgar Allan Poe, Blair Witch Project, Rocky
Horror Picture Show, and the films of M.
Night Shyamalan.
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