Des maisons hantées en Amérique au XIXe siècle

Seen from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, that a young country as the United States can have local stories of haunted houses can seem rather surprising, just as much as the still current attachment of the Americans in a kind of haunted “heritage”. The object of this article is to try to unders...

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Main Author: Stéphanie Sauget
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Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2013-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5914
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description Seen from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, that a young country as the United States can have local stories of haunted houses can seem rather surprising, just as much as the still current attachment of the Americans in a kind of haunted “heritage”. The object of this article is to try to understand what haunts the American houses in the Nineteenth century, through the examination of famous cases, to examine the topography, to put them in connection with other contemporary phenomena and then to think about the construction of these narratives of “authentic” said haunted houses.
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Des maisons hantées en Amérique au XIXe siècle
Transatlantica
Haunted Houses
modern spiritualism
Burned over district
Fox sisters
Reformers
Jonathan Koons
title Des maisons hantées en Amérique au XIXe siècle
title_full Des maisons hantées en Amérique au XIXe siècle
title_fullStr Des maisons hantées en Amérique au XIXe siècle
title_full_unstemmed Des maisons hantées en Amérique au XIXe siècle
title_short Des maisons hantées en Amérique au XIXe siècle
title_sort des maisons hantees en amerique au xixe siecle
topic Haunted Houses
modern spiritualism
Burned over district
Fox sisters
Reformers
Jonathan Koons
url https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5914
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