America's Gothic fiction : the legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana /

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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 A...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baker, Dorothy Zayatz
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Mather, Cotton, > 1663-1728. > Magnalia Christi Americana.
Mather, Cotton, > 1663-1728 > Influence.
Mather, Cotton, > 1663-1728.
Magnalia Christi Americana (Mather, Cotton)
American fiction > History and criticism.
Religion and literature.
Puritan movements in literature.
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature) > United States.
Religion and literature > United States > History.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > United States.
Puritanisme dans la littérature.
Récits d'horreur américains > Histoire et critique.
Roman gothique > États-Unis.
Religion et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Américains dans la littérature.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Religion et littérature.
Littérature frénétique > États-Unis.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
American fiction.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror tales, American.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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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