Breaking the Spell of Past Misdeeds: A Hauntological Reading of The House of the Seven Gables

Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables is a text about haunting on many levels: Hawthorne himself is haunted by his family history and by the literary influence of British gothic; the house is haunted by literal ghosts, signaling the unresolved nature of past events; the novel’s characters are ha...

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