Dead Women Talking - Figures of Injustice in American Literature

Examines how the metaphorical specters of dead female characters often have a lot to say about the state of society, in a book the looks at the works of Poe, Dickinson, Faulker, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Tony Kushner and more, as well as the novel The Lovely Bones and the TV show Desperate Housewives