America's Gothic fiction : the legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana /
"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 A...
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Columbus :
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1cbn4bh |
Taula de continguts:
- "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.