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1 online resource (viii, 161 pages) |
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"We have seen strange things to day" : the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables -- "A wilderness of error" : Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes -- Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother" : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather -- "The story was in the gaps" : Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton |
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"Secretary to the Salem witch trials, Cotton Mather is the most reviled of our national historians. Yet James Russell Lowell admitted that "with all his faults, that conceited old pedant contrived to make one of the most entertaining books ever written on this side of the water." In America's Gothic Fiction, Dorothy Z. Baker investigates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others, look to Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana at critical moments in their work and refashion his historical accounts as gothic fiction." "Cotton Mather's 1702 Magnalia captured the imagination of its readers more than any other colonial history and impressed Americans with its message of American exceptionalism and God's dramatic intervention on behalf of the country and its citizens. Poe, Stowe, and Hawthorne have radically divergent responses to Mather's theology, historiography, and literary forms. However, each takes up Mather's themes and forms and, in distinct ways, interrogates the providence tales in Magnalia Christi Americana as foundational statements about American history and identity."-- BOOK JACKET |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155) and index |
| Notes |
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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Magnalia Christi Americana.
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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 -- Influence
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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 -- Influence
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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Magnalia Christi Americana
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American fiction -- History and criticism
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Religion and literature.
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Puritan movements in literature.
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States
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Religion and literature -- United States -- History
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- United States
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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American fiction
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Horror tales, American
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Puritan movements in literature
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Religion and literature
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Gothic novel
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Rezeption
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United States
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USA
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814272039 |
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0814272037 |
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