Home and <i>Unheimlich</i> : The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Abstract The roundtable discussion brings Wharton's ghost stories into conversation with the ghost stories of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Focusing on both continuities and discontinuities among the selected ghost stories, the four participating scholars explore these American women writers' interest in the uncanny, particularly through its presence in home spaces. The uses to which these three writers have put the genre of the ghost story offer essential threads in understanding the genealogy of women’s experiences of power.