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Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American renaissance : Magnalia Christi Americana in Hawthorne, Stowe, and Stoddard
- Title
- Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American renaissance : Magnalia Christi Americana in Hawthorne, Stowe, and Stoddard / Christopher Felker.
- Author
- Felker, Christopher D., 1963-
- Publication
- Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS374.P6 F45 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xx, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902
- Political fiction, American > New England > History and criticism
- Politics and literature > New England > History > 19th century
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Democracy in literature
- Puritans in literature
- New England > Historiography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Identity Politics and Positional Strategies: Magnalia Christi Americana in the Period Between Charters, 1684-91. Ch. 1. Poet's Paper: Magnalia Christi Americana -- Pt. 2. Reading Magnalia Christi Americana in the Nineteenth Century. Ch. 2. Participatory Democracy and Robbins's 1820 Edition of Magnalia Christi Americana. Ch. 3. Hawthorne's Rehearsals of Puritanism and Peale's Museum: Resonance and Wonder in Cultural History. Ch. 4. "Wreathing the Pearls upon the Straight Thread of Puritan Life": Penelopean Rehearsals of New England History in The Minister's Wooing. Ch. 5. Historical Negotiation as "Planchette": Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons.
- ISBN
- 1555531873
- LCCN
- 93042071
- OCLC
- 502479457
- ocn502479457
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries