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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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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spelling | doaj-art-1d3570c6ec0949d9aa1a916dfa39fb972025-01-30T10:48:01ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662013-05-01110.4000/transatlantica.5914Des maisons hantées en Amérique au XIXe siècleStéphanie SaugetSeen 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.https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5914Haunted Housesmodern spiritualismBurned over districtFox sistersReformersJonathan Koons |
spellingShingle | Stéphanie Sauget 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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