Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt
By considering Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel, Babbitt, this essay examines the continuum between the paranormal and the normal, the supernatural and the natural. The lesson of Babbitt reveals how the occult is absorbed under the aegis of the normal, the regular, the conventional. By reading the novel...
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Main Author: | Russ Castronovo |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2013-05-01
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Series: | Transatlantica |
Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5989 |
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