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This fascinating, timely book examines the intersection of southern Gothic American literature and the American slave system. When humans are treated as property in the same way real estate, land, or buildings are a new genre emerges. The simple combination of romance and horror in gothic literature becomes darker and more complex when property is human. Ford (English, Baylor Univ.) advances the theory of how literary treatment of people as property humanizes tropes of nightmare, madness, terror, darkness, and haunting.--L. L. Johnson, Lewis & Clark College CHOICE, June 2021, Vol. 58, No. 10 Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic offers a wholly persuasive argument for slavery's impact on American letters and history and its peculiar twinning as nightmare to American dreams of property and self-ownership. In the present moment, when old racial demons and anxieties seem to be resurrected across the country and when Confederate statues and memorials are increasingly denounced as racial provocations, Ford's project has the great potential of clarifying and deepening current political debates on confronting and exorcising lingering ghosts of slavery.--Susan Donaldson, director of undergraduate studies and NEH Professor of English and American Studies, College of William & Mary

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Sarah Gilbreath Ford is professor of American literature at Baylor University and director of the Beall Poetry Festival. She is author of Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White. In 2017 she received the Phoenix Award from the Eudora Welty Society, and in 2019 she was named a Baylor Centennial Professor.

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