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

Author(s)

• Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

Bibliographic Information

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

Dorothy Z. Baker

Ohio State University Press, c2007

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155) and index

Contents of Works

• "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

Details

• NCID: BA84467811
• ISBN:
  • 9780814210604
• LCCN: 2007012212
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Columbus
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 161 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS166
  • DC22 : 813/.0872
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American fiction -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Religion and literature
  • LCSH : Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Magnalia Christi Americana
  • LCSH : Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 -- Influence
  • LCSH : Puritan movements in literature
  • LCSH : Horror tales, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States
  • LCSH : Religion and literature -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : National characteristics, American, in literature