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Baker, Dorothy Zayatz.

America's Gothic Fiction The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / Dorothy Z. Baker. - 1 online resource (viii, 161 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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

"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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780814272039 0814272037

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 --Influence.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Magnalia Christi Americana.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Religion and literature--History.--United States
Gothic revival (Literature)--United States.
Horror tales, American--History and criticism.
Puritan movements in literature.
Religion and literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS166 / .B35 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.0872