Open AccessDead End Job
Author(s) -
Jackson Eflin,
Wendy Faunce,
Brittany Means
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
digital literature review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2692-904X
DOI - 10.33043/dlr.1.0.111-123
Subject(s) - parallels , spiritualism , dead end , collar , period (music) , white (mutation) , history , middle class , sociology , art , psychoanalysis , political science , aesthetics , law , psychology , economics , operations management , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , alternative medicine , pathology , compensation (psychology) , gene , finance
The following critical edition of Frank R. Stockton’s “The Transferred Ghost” focuses on the ways in which the rise in spiritualism parallels the emergence of the middle class and white-collar positions in the United States in the late 1800s. By analyzing Stockton’s story along with other comedic ghost stories from the period, this edition will show how humor hid deeper anxieties about the era’s economic and social developments.