Inexplicable voices: liminal whiteness in Antebellum American fiction

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Inexplicable voices: liminal whiteness in Antebellum American fiction

This thesis examines the repeated appearance of liminal white voices in antebellum American fiction. It identifies a number of white characters who inhabit the boundary between life and death and produce inexplicable voices: talking corpses, ghosts, ventriloquists, spiritualist mediums and non-human...

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Main Author:	Murray, Hannah Lauren
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	liminality liminal whiteness the voice Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Robert Montgomery Bird Washington Irving Charles Brockden Brown antebellum fiction citizenship
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42179/

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