“That is the Substance, This the Shadow”: The Material Spectre of Female Empowerment in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ The Gates Ajar
This article revisits Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Civil War-era consolation novel The Gates Ajar (1868). While many readers have pointed out that the novel’s highly unconventional vision of embodied heaven teaches its white middle-class female readership to reroute grief for their lost loved ones into...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/26075 |
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