`One need not be a chamber-to be haunted-': American women's supernatural fiction.

SUPERNATURAL in literature; AMERICAN women authors; AMERICAN women's writings; STOWE, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; WARTON, Edith; CHOPIN, Kate, 1850-1904; AMERICAN ghost stories; CRITICISM; MARRIAGE in literature; MOTHERHOOD in literature; HUMAN sexuality in literature; GHOST stories; AMERICAN literature; WOMEN authors; FEMINISM in literature

Focuses on supernatural writing by American women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin. Exclusion of women writers from critical discussions of the American ghost story; Epistemology of women's supernatural stories; Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality as prominent issues explored in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ghost stories by American women writers.