TY - GEN T1 - America's Gothic fiction : the legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana A1 - Baker, Dorothy Zayatz LA - English PP - Columbus PB - Ohio State University Press YR - 2007 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn608206515 AB - "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."-- OP - 161 CN - PS166 .B35 2007 SN - 9780814272039 SN - 0814272037 SN - 9780814210604 SN - 0814210600 SN - 9780814291443 SN - 0814291449 KW - Mather, Cotton, : 1663-1728. : Magnalia Christi Americana. KW - Mather, Cotton, : 1663-1728 : Influence. KW - Mather, Cotton, : 1663-1728 KW - Magnalia Christi Americana (Mather, Cotton) KW - Mather, Cotton : 1663-1728 : Magnalia Christi Americana KW - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer : Bitterfeld KW - Mather, Cotton. KW - Magnalia Christi Americana. KW - American fiction : History and criticism. KW - Religion and literature. KW - Puritan movements in literature. KW - Horror tales, American : History and criticism. KW - Gothic revival (Literature) : United States. KW - Religion and literature : United States : History. KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) : United States. KW - Puritanisme dans la littérature. KW - Récits d'horreur américains : Histoire et critique. KW - Roman gothique : États-Unis. KW - Religion et littérature : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - Américains dans la littérature. KW - Roman américain : Histoire et critique. KW - Religion et littérature. KW - Littérature frénétique : États-Unis. KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) KW - American fiction KW - Gothic revival (Literature) KW - Horror tales, American KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Puritan movements in literature KW - Religion and literature KW - United States KW - Gothic novel KW - Rezeption KW - USA KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -