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America's gothic fiction : the legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana

Title
America's gothic fiction : the legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / Dorothy Z. Baker.
Author
Baker, Dorothy Zayatz.
Publication
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007.

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Description
viii, 161 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
  • Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 > Influence
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 07-6614
ISBN
  • 9780814210604 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814210600 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780814291443 (cd-rom)
  • 0814291449 (cd-rom)
LCCN
2007012212
OCLC
87776954
Author
Baker, Dorothy Zayatz.
Title
America's gothic fiction : the legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / Dorothy Z. Baker.
Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155) and index.
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JFE 07-6614
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