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.
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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 --Influence. Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Magnalia Christi Americana.
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.